News Recap - September 12-13, 2024

Highlighted news events from September 12-13, 2024

So much has happened over just two days. Here’s a recap:

Domestic

• The Biden administration has locked in a 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles. It’s also hiking tariffs on other things, including chips and steel. [More]

• The Biden administration has proposed new shipping rules to limit an import tax “loophole” for small shipment. This is likely to affect China’s popular e-commerce stores Shein and Temu, which would be likely to face more tariffs if the rules come into effect. [More]

• Florida’s government is advising against the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines for the Fall and Winter 2024–2025 Season. [More]

• A mysterious case of bird flu in Missouri was similar to a bird flu strain that was circulating in cattle, the CDC said. [More]

• Friday was the second consecutive day of school closures in Springfield due to bomb threats, amid rising tensions over migrant influx in the Ohio city. [More]

• An explosion at an Idaho gas station has left two people critically injured. Others are presumed dead. [More]

Companies

• Around 33,000 Boeing workers walked out Friday from the company’s factories in Washington, Oregon, and California. It’s Boeing’s first strike in 16 years. [More]

• Boar’s Head is shutting down its plant in Virginia that’s linked to a deadly outbreak of listeria. [More]

• 23andMe has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit over a data breach in 2023 that exposed more than 6.9 million 23andMe customers to attackers. [More]

Trump

• A judge in Georgia has dropped two charges against former President Donald Trump in his criminal case. Eight other charges remain. [More]

• New York’s highest appeals court has rejected two of Trump’s challenges in his business records case, including his appeal of New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s gag order. [More]

Election 2024

• Trump promised he would end taxes to overtime pay if he is elected. [More]

• He also promised mass deportations in Springfield and Aurora if elected. Springfield Ohio has been making the news over reports of Haitians eating animals in the community. Aurora Colorado has been in the news due to reports of Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment buildings. [More]

• Vice President Kamala Harris is calling to renew an assault weapons ban should she snag the presidency. [More]

• Trump is ruling out a second TV debate with Harris. [More]

• Oregon’s secretary of state said the state’s DMV mistakenly registered +300 noncitizens to vote. [More]

• The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that undated and misdated mail-in ballots cannot be counted. [More]

• New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu, a Republican, has signed a bill to require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote, and photo identification when casting a ballot. But the legislation won’t take effect until after the November election. [More]

International

• Australian politicians introduced a bill to the House of Representatives that threatens fines for social media giants enabling “misinformation.” It’s called the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024. [More]

  • The move has been met with criticism after criticism, including that the Australian government has itself participated in disseminating such information—and more than once.

  • Elon Musk has called the bill an act of facism, which drew an almost immediate response by an Australian official. [More]

  • A public rally has been organized against the bill scheduled for Sept. 28 in Sydney Australia. [More]

  • Someone has also suggested Australians who have concern over the bill to write to the lawmakers. [More]

  • This person has written a detailed breakdown of the bill in a long thread on X. Be sure to bookmark for your reference if you are following this with a close eye. [More]

• Three Americans are among 37 people sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo, following a failed coup. [More]

• The Brazil Supreme Court has lifted a freeze on Musk’s Starlink and X bank accounts after it seized a whopping $3.3 million in social media fines. But X remains banned due to a judicial order. [More]

• Germany will be welcoming 250,000 Kenyan skilled and semi-skilled workers. [More]

More Notables

• Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007 [More]

• See All the Winning Images in the 2024 Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest [More]

• Australian Government to Ban Social Media for Kids. [More]

• “The destruction of Springfield, Ohio inspired me to look at which organizations are being paid the most for refugee resettlement in the state.” [More]

• Not Just Ohio: Small Pennsylvania Town Also Mired in Tidal Wave of Haitian Migrants [More]

• Trump War Room promotes an unedited snippet of a Kamala interview. [More]

Relevant Memes

This is what hundreds of people at the Oct. 7 Supernova music festival in Israel saw in the sky (terrorists on powered paragliders) before they were slaughtered by terrorists.

“I am helping.” H/T LibertyPillMeme

Inspiration

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

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