In latest affordable housing push, Bowser focuses west of Rock Creek Park - "Drew Hubbard, interim director for the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development, said faith-based institutions own about 1,450 vacant parcels of land in D.C., which if used strategically could produce upward of 6,000 new homes."
Opinion: A Fox News defector gets it right on Laura Ingraham — and on MAGA - "The Jan. 6 violence actually was about disrupting the election’s outcome. And it functioned as the outgrowth of a larger effort that actually was about thwarting a legitimately elected government from taking power."
A QAnon con: How the viral Wayfair sex trafficking lie hurt real kids: An Internet mob wanted to rescue a 13-year-old girl. Instead, they terrified her, derailed real trafficking investigations and incited ‘save the children’ violence. - "A nurse giving her a sexual assault examination had recognized the warning signs. She called a local advocate, who would come to learn that this woman in her 30s had been coerced by two men to sell herself out of a hotel. In exchange, she got a place to stay.
"The advocate, Katie Howard, knew this was what most sex trafficking looked like in America. Not kidnapping. Not stranger danger. Not Wayfair cabinets or pillows. Just a person being manipulated by someone exploiting their vulnerability.
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"Ongoing investigations across the country were put on hold while a viral lie took precedence.
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"After Facebook started placing warning labels on Wayfair-related content and Twitter started banning those promoting it, Q followers went even further in co-opting the anti-sex trafficking cause. They started using the name of an international humanitarian organization, Save the Children, as their hashtag. The hashtag became a rallying cry, fit for pastel-colored Instagram posts and homemade posters waved at the roughly 200 'save the children' events that took place in late summer 2020, from Spokane, Wash., to Sarasota, Fla."
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