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  Published Date: 2020-07-31 

 Douglas Ross, the MP for Moray, is expected to be appointed as leader of the Scottish Conservatives as the party scrambles to reverse a steep fall in popularity before the Scottish election in May. The party plans the quickest possible coronation for Ross, who confirmed on Friday he would stand after Jackson Carlaw’s shock resignation on Thursday night. Party officials are trying to dissuade other people from standing to avoid a delay in Ross’s appointment as leader, after a series of opinion polls showed a majority of voters are now backing Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish National party. Ross confirmed the previous Scottish leader, Ruth Davidson, had agreed to take first minister’s questions for the Conservatives until the next Holyrood elections, but will not assume the role of interim leader or act as Ross’s deputy. Carlaw quit after a series of polls showed the SNP were on course to win an overall majority in the forthcoming election, putting a second independence referendum back on the agenda, with support for the Tories slumping to 20%. Panelbase polls put the SNP at 55% in a Scottish election. The same polls showed support for independence had now reached a record 54%, excluding “don’t knows”. A senior party source said the Tories believed Panelbase’s results were accurate and that put the future of the UK in peril. The Scottish party believes a large part of their challenge is countering deep antipathy towards Boris Johnson among potential Tory voters in Scotland. His backers believe Ross can counter attacks that he will be controlled by No 10 by pointing out he was the first UK government minister to resign in protest over the decision by Dominic Cummings and his wife to travel to Durham during lockdown while they were ill with Covid-19 symptoms. In his statement on Friday confirming he planned to stand, Ross said: “This is a crucial time in Scottish politics. We are months away from an important election, and need strong, decisive leadership of our party to take on and defeat the SNP in seats right across the country. “[I] want us to show clearly to everyone in Scotland, no matter where they live or who they are, that if they want to move on from the divisions of the past and focus on the issues that really matter; a strong economy, good schools, safe streets and a world-leading NHS then the Scottish Conservatives will be their voice. “Scotland is an integral part of the United Kingdom and that’s a relationship I want to maintain and improve. Under my leadership, this will be an absolute priority.” In a move likely to provoke opposition attacks about being a part-timer, Ross will seek a seat at Holyrood in the 2021 Scottish parliamentary election but is expected to stay on as MP for Moray. The Tories will cite Alex Salmond’s decision to remain an MP after winning a Holyrood seat in 2007, when he became first minister. 

  Published Date: 2020-07-31 

 Tens of thousands of supporters of a Belarusian opposition candidate crowded into a Minsk square on Thursday evening before upcoming elections for what may have been the largest political rally in the country’s modern history. More than 63,000 people attended the event, according to the human rights organisation Viasna, which has sent monitors to the opposition protests. That number would mark it as the “largest in Belarus since 1991”, according to Charter97, a prominent opposition website. Belarus says detained Russian mercenaries were plotting terror attack Read more More conservative estimates of the number in attendance would still make the rally in Minsk’s Bangalore Square one of the country’s largest since the Soviet Union. Supporters came bearing both the Belarusian state flag and the white-red-white flag favoured by the country’s opposition. Others had signs calling for the release of political prisoners or demanding change. As night fell, protestors sang a protest anthem about walls crumbling, a translation of the 1980s song adopted by the Polish Solidarity movement. The rallies are in support of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a reluctant presidential candidate thrust into the race after her husband was arrested, and backed by other opposition candidates disqualified from the 9 August elections. She is challenging Alexander Lukashenko, the country’s president since 1994, who has jailed key opposition leaders and accused Russia and the west of seeking to destabilise the country by supporting his opponents. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, centre, with political allies Valeria Sepkalo, left, and Maria Kolesnikova, right. Photograph: Celestino Arce Lavin/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock Lukashenko is expected to win the elections, particularly as he exerts immense influence on elections officials. Most independent polling is illegal in Belarus, although a poll ordered by Belarusian state television has projected Lukashenko to win in a landslide. Thursday’s historic rally came as the Belarus government said it had arrested 33 Russian mercenaries sent to destabilise the country and would impose extra precautions on public rallies, a measure that appeared designed to target Tikhanovskaya’s campaign. The pro-Tikhanovskaya rallies have grown steadily through a week of campaigning in cities and towns across the country, setting up one of the most unpredictable presidential elections in Belarus. She has been joined onstage by two key female allies, a striking image in the normally male-dominated politics in Belarus. At Thursday’s rally, Tikhanovskaya repeated her campaign promises of freeing all political prisoners and organising new elections. Lower estimates would still put the rally on the level of mass protests in 2010, when tens of thousands gathered to protest disputed elections to re-elect Lukashenko. More than 600 were detained afterwards in a brutal crackdown that led the EU and US to sanction Lukashenko. Smaller rallies took place after presidential elections in 2006 and as recently as 2017. In both cases, hundreds were arrested. Supporters came bearing both the white-red-white Belarusian flag favoured by the country’s opposition and the official red-and-green state flag, an indication of how the opposition to Lukashenko has expanded even among his base. 

  Published Date: 2020-07-31 

 Banking group puts aside £2.1bn to cover bad debts and may be forced to take a writedown NatWest tumbled into the red by £1.3bn in the second quarter as it stashed away another £2.1bn to cover bad debts caused by the coronavirus crisis. Preparations for a further downturn wiped out profits at the taxpayer-owned lender – formerly known as Royal Bank of Scotland – which reported a £1.7bn profit during the same period last year. Its earnings were stung by a £2.1bn loan loss provision to cover a jump in defaults in the coming months, as businesses and households struggle to repay their debts because of the economic slump triggered by the pandemic. Analysts had expected a second-quarter charge of £943m. NatWest Group’s chairman, Howard Davies, said: “It’s always disappointing to report a loss but as you’ve seen from the banks that have already reported, our first-half numbers show the impact the pandemic is having on our profitability.” Royal Bank of Scotland changes name to NatWest Read more NatWest said the impairment costs – which brings total provisions so far this year to £2.9bn – “reflected the deterioration of the economic outlook”. Full-year loan loss charges are expected to total £3.5bn-£4.5bn. The bank’s worst-case scenario forecasts predict a 16.9% drop in gross domestic product for 2020, with unemployment peaking at 14.4%. in the fourth quarter of this year. However, its central forecasts are for an economic decline of about 14% this year, with the jobless rate hitting 9.2%-9.8% in the final three months of 2020. The lender warned it could be forced to take a writedown if the economic blow was larger than expected: “The impacts of Covid-19 on the economy and the mitigating benefits of government support schemes remain uncertain and could result in changes to our financial results in upcoming periods, including the possible impairment of goodwill.” The group said it was still aiming to cut £250m of costs by the end of the year, which included a headcount reduction of 500 jobs in the second quarter. A spokeswoman said that figure had been achieved as a result of people leaving the business and not being replaced, and that job cuts would not be made until after September. The chief executive, Alison Rose, said the lender was still in a strong financial position: “Our performance in the first half of the year has been significantly impacted by the challenges and uncertainty our economy continues to face as a result of Covid-19. However, NatWest Group has a robust capital position, underpinned by a resilient, capital-generative and well-diversified business.” NatWest is the latest UK bank to reveal the mounting costs of the pandemic. Lloyds reported a second-quarter loss of £676m after putting aside £2.4bn for bad debts. Barclays’ quarterly profit plunged 75% to £359m after a £1.6bn loan loss charge. Smaller lenders have also struggled. TSB – which is owned by Spain’s Sabadell - said it plunged to a £65.5m loss for the first half of 2019 compared with a profit of £21.1m a year earlier, after taking a £111m loan loss charge. The bank has already slashed 1,000 jobs in the past year and is closing 82 branches by the end of this year. However, Sabadell said on Thursday that it was looking at accelerating cost cuts at TSB, raising the prospect of further job losses. Sign up to the daily Business Today email or follow Guardian Business on Twitter at @BusinessDesk Meanwhile, annual losses at the digital bank Monzo ballooned to £114m in the year to February from £50m a year earlier, as it warned that the financial strain of the Covid-19 crisis had put the company’s future at risk. “This increases the risk that the group will not be able to execute its business plan, which could adversely impact its ability to generate a profit or raise sufficient capital to meet future regulatory capital requirements,” Monzo warned in its annual report. On Monday, HSBC will be the last big UK lender to report its second-quarter results. It is expected to report loan loss charges of $2.7bn (£2bn), which is more than the $2.5bn it is likely to post in pre-tax profits, according to consensus estimates. 

  Published Date: 2020-07-31 

 Documents unsealed by court order Thursday reveal correspondence between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and also allege former President Bill Clinton was seen on the private island where Epstein was alleged to have taken underage girls. Michael Cernovich tweeted excerpts from one of the documents, claiming, “Bill Clinton is implicated by name by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims as having been at Pedophile Island.” Cernovich continued, “The media’s coverage (or non-coverage) of this will be worth observing.” Techno Fog tweeted a section of the interview in which Clinton’s name was mentioned: Witness interview: Bill Clinton was at Epstein's island with Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and "2 young girls." pic.twitter.com/NG8PbaZLNt — Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) July 31, 2020 The Guardian reports that Epstein friend Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested July 2, 2020, and police “charged her for allegedly participating in Epstein’s sex trafficking.” Unsealed documents contain a July 25, 2015, email from Epstein to Maxwell saying, “You have done nothing wrong and i woudl [sic] urge you to start acting like it. Go outside, head high, not as an esacping[sic] convict. go to parties. deal with it.” The documents contain information from Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who “claimed that Maxwell lured her into Epstein’s orbit at 15 years old, under the guise of offering work as a masseuse.” AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. 

  Published Date: 2020-07-31 

 During a town hall on CNN on Thursday, White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci stated that he doesn’t think “we need to go to lockdown again and shelter in place.” Fauci said, “I don’t think we need to go to lockdown again and shelter in place. There are situations, as I’ve mentioned to you before, in multiple interviews, where, when they were trying to open up a state or a city, that there were certain guidelines that were skipped over. Maybe you’re in a phase two, and you need to pause and maybe go back to phase one. That’s entirely conceivable and may be recommended. I don’t think we need to go all the way back to lockdown. And the reason I say that is that we’re learning more and more. If you do five fundamental principles, in any situation, one, wear a mask all the time, consistently, when you’re outside, and can be exposed. Number two, keep physical distance. Number three, avoid bars or close bars if you can. Keep away from crowds, big congregations, and maintain hand hygiene. Those are five not rocket science things that one can do. And we know when you do that, and states that have done that, they’ve actually flattened the surging curve and are starting to come down. So, bottom line, right now, I don’t think we need to go to lockdown.” Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett 

  Published Date: 2020-07-31 

 The United States is expected to have up to 500,000 fewer births next year due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis and the economic recession that has ensued. Research from the Brookings Insititute, published by Bloomberg Businessweek, finds that predictions that the nation’s stay-at-home orders from the crisis would spur a baby boom have failed miserably. Instead, the U.S. is expecting significantly fewer births: The Guttmacher Institute surveyed about 2,000 American women in late April and early May and found that 34% wanted to delay pregnancy or have fewer children as a result of the pandemic. That outweighed the 17% who said they wanted children sooner or more of them. [Emphasis added] … In June the Brookings Institution released a study predicting the U.S. is headed for “a large, lasting baby bust.” Its researchers forecast there will be 300,000 to 500,000 fewer children born in the U.S. in 2021 than there would have been absent the crisis, which amounts to a decrease of roughly 10% from 2019. That means the number of babies never born is likely to greatly exceed the number of Americans who’ve died from coronavirus, which is approaching 150,000. The effect on population will be longer-lasting as well: Many of the babies who aren’t being born would have lived into the 22nd century. [Emphasis added] Following the Great Recession from 2007 to 2009, demographers predicted that there would be a baby boom as had happened in the second half of the 20th Century following economic declines. But, the baby boom never came. “Had prerecessionary fertility patterns been sustained through 2019, there would have been 6.6 million more births, and nearly 3 million more women would have had their first child over the last 11 years,” University of New Hampshire demographer Kenneth Johnson told Bloomberg Businessweek. As Breitbart News reported, birth and fertility rate data released by the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that less than 3.8 million babies were born in the U.S. in 2018 — a drop of two percent, or almost 64,000 less births compared to the year before. Since 1971, the birth rate has been below replacement level, according to the CDC. Birth rates across all major racial groups — non-Hispanic whites, Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, and non-Hispanic Asians — were again below replacement level for 2018. Despite a declining birth rate below replacement level, Republican and Democrat lawmakers have yet to lay out a national agenda to increase American births, fertility, and family rates. Conversely, Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, has implemented a pro-family agenda to increase his nation’s birth rate among similar rapid decline, as Breitbart News has reported. As part of that agenda, the government of Hungary gives a loan of $33,000 to eligible Hungarian couples after they marry. That loan is fully forgiven by the government so long as the couple has three children. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 

  Published Date: 2020-07-31 

 Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) is raising concerns in a new letter to Attorney General Bill Barr over law enforcement and emergency service departments around the country employing Chinese-produced drones. Banks, in a Thursday letter to Barr obtained by Breitbart News exclusively ahead of its public release, expressed that he is worried about a Chinese Communist Party-aligned company that donated drones to U.S. law enforcement and emergency services organizations in 22 states nationwide. Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI), a Chinese company, has come under scrutiny for drones being used to spy on Americans before. But now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Chinese company said it donated 100 drones to 45 different police departments, fire departments, and public safety organizations in 22 states. Banks, a leader on the threat of Communist China and a member of the House Republicans’ China Task Force, is asking Barr to investigate the matter and ban the use of the Chinese drones in the United States. “I’m writing out of concern with numerous state governments’ use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) produced by Dà-Ji?ng Innovations (DJI)—a commercial drone manufacturer based in China,” Banks wrote to Barr. “On April 1, 2020, DJI announced that it was donating, ‘100 drones to 45 police, fire and public safety organizations in 22 states,’ to help states respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although DJI did not list the specific agencies which it donated drones to, it published a map of the states that have received drones which included Indiana. In November 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) acknowledged the danger of foreign-made drones and urged a review of the product’s supply chain before allowing the technology to be used by DOJ officials. To protect American’s privacy from foreign overreach, the DOJ should lead a national effort to ban their use at the state and local level. “ Banks continued by noting that the use of Chinese drones by federal law enforcement is already banned by the Department of Homeland Security — and the threat to the United States of local law enforcement and other emergency services departments using Chinese drones is clear. “The danger of using drones produced in China is well known throughout the interagency,” Banks wrote to Barr. “In May 2018, the Department of Defense (DoD)’s banned the purchase and use of DJI drones due to ‘cybersecurity risks’ and the Department of Interior’s grounded its entire UAV fleet over concerns with DJI in January of this year. According to a 2017 memo from the Los Angeles office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, that agency had ‘moderate confidence that DJI was providing critical ‘infrastructure and law enforcement data to the Chinese government.’ The memo specified that, ‘much of the information collected includes proprietary and sensitive critical infrastructure data, such as detailed imagery of power control panels, security measures for critical infrastructure sites, or materials used in bridge construction.”” Banks also noted that the data that the Google-based Android application used to operate the drones collects may be transmitted back to the Chinese Communist Party, a serious risk for American national security. “On Thursday, July 22, two cybersecurity research firms, Synackti and GRIMM, released a report claiming that the Android application used to operate DJI drones collects and transmits large amounts of users’ personal information to the firm,” Banks wrote. “This is especially concerning because the Chinese Communist Party requires DJI and all other technology companies based in China, to provide it with any and all data it requests.” Banks concluded his letter to Barr by citing a speech that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave to the National Governors Association this year about the threat that China is presenting to state and local governments here in the United States and warned that a ban on Chinese drones is necessary as a result. “In early February, Secretary Pompeo gave a speech to the National Governors Association in which he warned that the Communist Party is increasingly focused on local and state governments in its attempt to influence and infiltrate U.S. politics,” Banks wrote. “DJI’s decision to donate drones to local governments after being blacklisted from most federal agencies is especially suspicious when viewed in this light. I appreciate your leadership on our nation’s challenges with the Chinese Communist Party and applaud the work of the Department of Justice’s China Initiative. I urge you to consider a national ban on DJI drones and appreciate your attention to the matter.” Pompeo, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News this year, laid out what the Chinese Communist Party is trying to do to influence state and local governments — like the law enforcement agencies that DJI sent these drones to that Banks is writing about here — and how the FBI and Justice Department are responsible for stopping this. “I spoke to the National Governors Association a few months back, where I shared that they are working to influence governors, mayors, school board members, people all – private business owners, to influence them to put the bright face of China on when it is in fact the Chinese Communist Party that’s seeking to exert their influence here inside of the United States,” Pompeo told Breitbart News in the mid-May interview. “This is primarily the responsibility of the FBI to police, but your listeners should know the State Department is doing its part too. We put restrictions on their diplomats who are moving around America, the same ones that they put on our diplomats as they’re traveling in China. This effort to influence what’s going on here in the United States is a very serious matter. You talked about our universities and our research lab. This is not about good Chinese people working on commercial projects. We find that acceptable. This is about the Chinese Communist Party exerting its influence here in the United States for missions that are deeply connected to the regime in China trying to exert influence in places where it ought not to be, and we’re going to do everything we can to push back against that.” 

  Published Date: 2020-07-31 

 Dozens of pro-police protesters attended a rally on Thursday in Carson City, Nevada, just before a special legislative session that will focus on several major criminal justice reforms. The rally, dubbed “Don’t Handcuff Our Police,” was organized by the Nevada Republican Party and President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, and featured speeches from several GOP legislators. Certain measures being pushed as part of the reform include drug and alcohol testing of police officers who have been involved in a shooting and the requirement of police to intervene in situations where they witness another officer’s misuse of force. State lawmakers have also discussed preventing officers from using chokeholds. “We want fair and equal treatment for all people, including our police officers,” said Assemblyman Jim Wheeler (R). “Have you seen any protest against doctors? Probably one or two percent of them don’t get it right and people die.” “But then you talk about the 99.9 percent of our law enforcement officers who get it right every single time … Let’s stand up for the good ones,” Wheeler added. “Let’s stand up for the ones that have our back.” Republican Assemblywoman Alexis Hansen was also in attendance and echoed Wheeler’s remarks, saying she is “disturbed” by the recent demands against police officers. “I have great faith in our law enforcement,” Hansen said. “Yes, there are some bad actors at times, but we believe in law and order.” “One of the things I find most disturbing is the kind of disrespect shown to our law enforcement,” Hansen added. “It’s reminiscent of how our military and veterans were treated during Vietnam.” 

  Published Date: 2020-07-31 

 Department of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced this week that the Trump administration is launching an effort to investigate the cold cases of scores of American Indian and Native Alaskan women who have disappeared. The task forces also include top adviser to President Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and DOI Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Tara Katuk Sweeney. DOI said according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Crime Information Center, there are some 1,400 unsolved cases of missing and murdered American Indians and Alaskan Native women in the United States – 136 cases are in Minnesota where the first task forces’ office opened. The project began on November 26, 2019, when Trump signed Executive Order 13898. “President Trump created a task force to support Tribal communities, reduce the staggering number of violent crimes committed against American Indians and Alaska Natives and closeout hundreds of cold cases,” Bernhardt said in the announcement. “The Trump Administration is committed to justice and working alongside these Tribal communities to restore peace and prosperity.” “While visiting the great state of Minnesota with Secretary Bernhardt, we are advancing two top priorities for the administration: The Pledge to America’s Workers and supporting American Indian and Alaska Native communities,” Ivanka Trump said. “We are furthering President Trump’s commitment to forgotten men and women across our country and the Administration’s efforts to ensure that all Americans can live with dignity and the promise of a brighter future.” “Today’s opening of the first Missing and Murdered Native Americans Cold Case office demonstrates the commitment of the Operation Lady Justice Task Force to achieving the mandate set out for it under President Trump’s executive order,” Sweeney said. “Cold cases in Indian Country will be addressed with determination and the understanding that the victims in these cases will be accorded some measure of dignity and compassion – not only for them, but for their survivors, as well.” “President Trump’s Executive Order established the Operation Lady Justice Task Force, a multi-agency effort co-chaired by Secretary Bernhardt and U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr,” a press release about the initiative said. “Its purpose is to enhance the operation of the criminal justice system and address the staggering number of missing and murdered American Indian and Alaska Natives in Tribal communities.” “The Cold Case Task Forces are in accordance with the President’s Executive Order and will be staffed with law enforcement personnel and newly appointed special agents from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services (BIA-OJS), along with personnel from other Operation Lady Justice Task Force partners including tribal law enforcement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Offices of the U.S. Attorneys,” the press release said. In addition to Minnesota, Cold Case Task Forces office openings will take place in the following cities: Rapid City, SD Billings, MT Nashville, TN Albuquerque, NM Phoenix, AZ Anchorage, AK Follow Penny Starr on Twitter 

  Published Date: 2020-07-31 

 A local television station conducted an experiment with vote-by-mail and it exposed the shortcomings of the system. WRDW in Philadelphia sent 100 “mock ballots” from across the city to a P.O. box set up specifically for the test. A few days later, reporter Tony Dokoupil sent 100 more. He sought to mimic the size and weight of ballot envelopes to ensure the most accurate results. A week later, Dokoupil went to the post office to pick up the delivered ballots at the PO Box he had created for them. At first, a worker could not find his mail. When he sought to confirm the answer, he was dismissed. “Alright then, have a good day,” he was told curtly. It wasn’t until he spoke to a manager and explained the experiment that he finally found what he was looking for. “They had them somewhere else,” he was told from behind the protective glass. Dokoupil tabulated the results: 21 percent of the votes hadn’t been delivered within the same city after four days. Some mailed a week prior were also missing. At the end of the experiment, only 97 percent of the ballots arrived. Three percent were missing, leading Dokoupil to declare those mock voters were “disenfranchised by mail.” The reporter then hit the streets and couldn’t find a resident who would say a kind thing about the mail service. “I just don’t trust the mail,” one woman said. Another woman said she wanted to actually see her vote submitted “to see that it actually counts.” President Trump shared the news story on Twitter on Wednesday. That was preceded by a tweet slamming mail-in voting in New York. New York Mail-In voting is in a disastrous state of condition. Votes from many weeks ago are missing – a total mess. They have no idea what is going on. Rigged Election. I told you so. Same thing would happen, but on massive scale, with USA. Fake News refuses to report! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2020 “New York Mail-In voting is in a disastrous state of condition. Votes from many weeks ago are missing – a total mess,” Trump wrote. “They have no idea what is going on. Rigged Election. I told you so. Same thing would happen, but on massive scale, with USA. Fake News refuses to report!” In April, the Public Interest Legal Foundation estimated 28 million mail ballots “went missing” over the last decade. “Putting the election in the hands of the United States Postal Service would be a catastrophe. Over the recent decade, there were 28 million missing and misdirected ballots,” PILF President and General Counsel J. Christian Adams said. “These represent 28 million opportunities for someone to cheat. Absentee ballot fraud is the most common, the most expensive, to investigate, and can never be reversed after an election. The status quo was already bad for mail balloting. The proposed emergency fix is worse.” Kyle Olson is a reporter for Breitbart News. He is also host of “The Kyle Olson Show,” syndicated on Michigan radio stations on Saturdays. Listen to segments on YouTube. Follow him on Twitter, like him on Facebook, and follow him on Parler.