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News resident alien Resident Alien to Move to USA for Fourth Season The move is likely being made to expose the show to a wider audience. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on June 18, 2024 Credit: James Dittiger/SYFY Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: James Dittiger/SYFY The kooky SYFY series Resident Alien, which stars Alan Tudyk as an alien who takes over the persona of a guy named Harry Vanderspeigle, has gained a loyal following over its first three seasons. The series’ third season premiered this February on SYFY and Peacock, and according to Deadline, the show will have a season four, albeit on a different network. That network is USA, which—like SYFY and Peacock—is owned by NBCUniversal.  The move, according to Deadline, was the only way Resident Alien would get a fourth season and will also mean that the show will have a lower budget than it enjoyed at SYFY. The trade also suggests that the parent company’s decision to move the show was in part done to expose it to a broader audience. And what will that broader audience see? Here’s the official synopsis for the show: Based on the Dark Horse comics, SYFY’s Resident Alien follows a crash-landed alien named Harry (Alan Tudyk) whose secret mission is to kill all humans. In Season Three, Harry is vowing to work with General McCallister (Linda Hamilton) to rid the Earth of the Grey aliens—a task made more difficult when he discovers that the Grey Hybrid Joseph (Enver Gjokaj) has taken a job in town as the new Deputy. Joseph isn’t Harry’s only obstacle—Harry struggles to balance business and his personal life when he falls in love for the first time. Meanwhile, Asta (Sara Tomko) and D’arcy (Alice Wetterlund) move in together and struggle to discover their purpose in the world, Sheriff Mike (Corey Reynolds) and Deputy Liv (Elizabeth Bowen) continue their quest to find out who killed the Alien Tracker, and Ben (Levi Fiehler) and Kate (Meredith Garretson) are forced to deal with the subconscious repercussions of their alien abductions. The show was adapted for television by Chris Sheridan, who will continue to showrun over at USA. The move means that the only original scripted series left at SYFY are Reginald the Vampire, SurrealEstate, and The Ark. Chucky is currently “owned” by both SYFY and USA. There’s no news yet on whether the horror comedy will get another season and, if so, where it will find a home under the NBCU umbrella. We don’t have details yet on when we’ll see season four of Resident Alien on USA. While we wait for more news, you can watch all three seasons of Resident Alien on Peacock or catch the first two seasons on Netflix. [end-mark] The post <i>Resident Alien</i> to Move to USA for Fourth Season appeared first on Reactor.

Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday accused one of the scientists behind the assertion that the COVID-19 virus was not grown in a lab of “shameful propaganda” at an “Origins of COVID-19″ hearing. “You should have done better, and because you didn’t, people have suffered,” the Missouri Republican said to Robert Garry. Hawley said people have lost their jobs and social standing because of the “propaganda article” of Garry, one of the five authors of the March 2020 opinion paper on “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine. “It is wrong to censor and lie to the American public,” the Missouri lawmaker said. “It is wrong to withhold critical information from them.” Garry is a professor of microbiology and immunology, and associate dean for biomedical sciences at Tulane School of Medicine in New Orleans. “As a scientist who is supposed to follow facts, do you regret that your work was used to censor your fellow scientists and ordinary Americans who asked questions about the virus?” Hawley asked Garry. Garry responded that scientists are not responsible for their articles after they are published. “All we did was write a paper,” he said. “It’s been one of the most scrutinized papers in history,” he said. “It’s held up very well. It wasn’t an attempt to distort things and to mislead the American public. It was just a paper.” The Missouri senator accused Garry of lying about the intelligence community coming to the conclusion that the virus did not originate from a lab. “That is a lie,” Hawley said. “The intelligence community did not come to that conclusion. Multiple intelligence community agencies and components have concluded it was likely a lab leak, and they concluded at the same time you and your people were propagandizing the American public.” “I am not going to sit here and allow you to lie any further,” he continued. “You have disgracefully participated in shameful propaganda that has been one of the worst chapters in American history with the country propagandizing its own people.” Garry agreed that there is more to learn from the intelligence community. “All agencies should come forth with more information,” he said. The hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee aimed to identify the truth about where the coronavirus came from, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said. Agencies and officials withheld information about the COVID-19 virus from the American public, Paul said in his opening remarks. “Privately, they were saying one thing,” Paul said. “Publicly, they were saying another. Media pundits parroted the narrative, while social media platforms censored discussion about the lab leak, labeling it as misinformation and stifling open discourse about the virus’s origins.” Molecular biologist Richard Ebright called the paper “fraudulent.” “I would tell a younger scientist that you do not state a conclusion without evidence, even in an opinion piece in a scientific journal,” Ebright said. “And you never, under any circumstances in a scientific journal, state conclusions that you know to be unsound. That represents scientific misconduct.” The post ‘Shameful Propaganda’: Josh Hawley Accuses COVID-19 Scientist of Lying appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Rallying Las Vegas voters on Sunday, former President Donald Trump said, “For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very happy, because when I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips.” Amid 100-degree temperatures, he added, “You do a great job of service. You take care of people, and I think it’s going to be something that really is deserved.” Trump’s tip-tax repeal proposal blends sensible policy and smart politics. The presumptive GOP standard-bearer discussed this idea with congressional Republicans on Capitol Hill on Thursday. “He would like to tell you that it was incredible research and policy discussion, but the secret is, he got it from a waitress,” Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., told Roll Call after huddling with Trump over a Republican legislative agenda. Cramer said that Trump got this idea when a Las Vegas waitress told him: “They are coming after my tips.” “No tax on tips, OK?” Trump told supporters Friday in Palm Beach, Fla., on his 78th birthday. “We need to spread the word so that every time you leave a tip for the next five months, you put on the receipt, ‘Vote for Trump, because there’s no tax on tips.’” The Tax Foundation analyzed the latest IRS data: In 2018, some 6.13 million workers paid federal income tax on an average of $6,249 in tips. Keeping that cash, rather than having it incinerated in Washington, would ease the pain of everyday Americans who endure President Joe Biden’s lingering inflation and dwindling economic growth. “In an act of political genius, President Trump promised to eliminate income taxes on tips,” Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform, told me. “The promise was made in Nevada, one of many states where thousands of waiters and waitresses see tips as immediate rewards for their hard work and extra effort. Every tip is a pay hike.” “Democrats like taxing tips,” Norquist added. “Why? The union bosses want to kill tips so they can treat waiters like assembly-line workers. They wish to prevent harder-working waiters from earning more.” As if on cue, Ted Pappageorge, the boss of Las Vegas-based Culinary Workers Union Local 226, greeted Trump’s idea with a grimace. Pappageorge said: “Relief is definitely needed for tip earners, but Nevada workers are smart enough to know the difference between real solutions and wild campaign promises from a convicted felon.” Despite this corruptly earned Democratic talking point, the Left cannot argue that Trump is scrapping the tip tax to enrich his fellow billionaires at Mar-a-Lago. Instead, Trump would help barbers, baristas, and bartenders—people like those he recently visited at an Atlanta Chick-fil-A, a Harlem bodega, and a South Bronx park. This working-class tax repeal will ease efforts to make permanent the Trump-GOP’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Killing the tip tax is the side order of onion rings that makes the permanent tax-cut burger irresistible. “Crooked Joe Biden has taken the totally opposite approach, trying to TAX more and more of their Tips, even hiring 88,000 IRS Agents to collect!” Trump wrote via Truth Social. “In fact, Crooked Joe substantially increased the Reporting Requirements for Workers (2023!), and would go still further if I wasn’t here to watch.” Indeed, ditching the tip tax would spare employees and employers endless paperwork hassles and needless scrutiny from Biden’s brigades of intrusive tax inspectors. “The IRS wants to look at how they can trap the entire transaction process more accurately, thereby netting more revenue,” said National Taxpayers Union President Pete Sepp. “It could also impose a whole new web of recordkeeping systems and compliance burdens,” Sepp told me. “The IRS has always tried to look over the shoulders of anyone who works in or runs businesses that either deal in a lot of cash or deal in a lot of tips.” Compare Trump’s valuable tax cuts for workers with the Democrats’ venomous minimum-wage mandates. Last April 1, California imposed a 25% hourly pay hike on fast-food chains with at least 60 outlets, from $16 to $20. As conservatives warned, results have been poisonous: Rubio’s Coastal Grill padlocked 48 Mexican restaurants in the Golden State and filed for bankruptcy due to “significant increases to the minimum wage in California.” Franchisees sacked 2,000 Pizza Hut delivery drivers from Sacramento to San Bernardino, Calif. “Between last fall and January, California fast-food restaurants cut about 9,500 jobs, representing a 1.3% change from September 2023,” the California Business and Industrial Alliance stated June 6 in a full-page ad in USA Today. That employment destruction surely has accelerated since the higher-wage order landed on April Fools’ Day. Burger King franchisee Harsh Ghai planned to install job-killing digital-order kiosks in his 140 West Coast eateries between 2029 and 2034. Instead, Ghai will deploy them all by late this month “in every single restaurant in response to the legislation to be able to balance some of these labor costs that are hitting us.” Citing data from Kalinowski Equity Research, KNBC Los Angeles reports that in just the first 18 days of the $20 minimum wage, fast-food prices rose 7% at Starbucks, 7.5% at Chipotle, and 8% at Wendy’s.  Placer.ai data confirm that diners increased year-over-year visits in February and March. But as soon as the higher minimum wage and attendant price hikes arrived, foot traffic lagged in April and May: Jack in the Box dropped 0.8%. McDonald’s slid 2.43%. Wendy’s sank 3.24%. Burger King tanked 3.86%. So, the Democratic “solution” closes businesses, kills jobs, unleashes robots, boosts prices, and repels customers, while Trump pledges to free workers from pouring their tips into the Potomac. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Trump Is Right: Trash the Tip Tax appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Tuesday afternoon, President Joe Biden announced his latest unauthorized attempt to grant a back-door amnesty to half a million or more people living illegally in the United States. When it stands between him and a policy objective, Biden treats the law of the land as a minor obstacle to work around. Whether it’s passing along billions of dollars in loan balances from college students to you and me, giving chosen favorites massive breaks on mortgages, or handing millions in grant money from the so-called Inflation Reduction Act to activists who support illegal immigration, Biden acts as if limits set by Congress are just for us little people. From a man who likes to say that democracy hangs by a thread and who claims to uphold the rule of law, this approach is ironic. Congress intended immigration parole to be used by the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to allow a few hundred migrants a year into the country, in exceptional circumstances. But the president has used it to create a string of “McVisa” programs benefiting Afghans, then Ukrainians, and then Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans. He used it for aliens to book an appointment on the CBP One app so they could just show up at a port of entry, then to allow family members from favored countries to cut the line and wait here instead of at home. This latest idea jammed through the parole loophole by Biden is called “parole in place.” It’s based on some bogus premises, starting with pretending that someone living in the U.S. illegally for more than a decade is “applying for entry” today. (That would be like describing someone who showed up on your porch tomorrow but didn’t ring the doorbell until 10 years later as a “visitor.”) Critics describe parole in place as an “amnesty” because under U.S. immigration law, aliens who’ve entered illegally can’t get green cards through their spouses because they’ve never been “admitted.” This isn’t just “bureaucratic hurdles,” as The Washington Post would have you believe. It was a deliberate attempt by Congress to make it harder for migrants to enter the U.S. illegally and stay with impunity. Congress mandated a three-year bar from returning to the U.S. for those who have been here illegally between 6 to 12 months, and a 10-year bar for those illegally present for more than a year. But illegal alien spouses may apply for a waiver to these bars from a DHS subagency, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, for which many are approved every year. Biden’s new amnesty once again subverts the will of Congress by treating an alien who is paroled the same as someone who was legally admitted, thus eliminating the three- and 10-year bars to return. Once paroled, the half-million alien spouses he paroles in place can apply for green cards and, in due course, become citizens. This is not only unlawful and unfair, but will encourage yet more illegal immigration, fraud, and massive access to already stretched federal and state benefits. It also will throw another half-million cases onto Citizenship and Immigration Services’ already impossible workload. The Obama administration tried out the parole-in-place concept, but limited it to illegal alien spouses of U.S. military service members. Biden’s program widens the availability to all aliens living illegally in the U.S.—who either entered illegally or came on a visa and overstayed—if they have been married to an American citizen for at least 10 years. Since January 2021, Biden has released millions of aliens at the border with no idea who they are—including the Venezuelan gang member accused of murdering Laken Riley and the suspected multiple killer from El Salvador now accused of murdering a Maryland mother of five, Rachel Morin. Biden has released so many illegal aliens so fast that there are now 7.4 million who should be detained under our laws by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (another DHS subagency), but roam free, mostly untracked, on a “Non-Detained Docket” of deportation cases. “Parole in place” will allow foreign nationals living here illegally to jump ahead of millions who are patiently waiting legally in line in their home countries to join family or get jobs in America. Having let in up to 10 million inadmissible aliens by negligence, incompetence, and scoffing at U.S. laws, Biden now is going for broke. But rather than using jerry-rigged workarounds to achieve mass migration and amnesty, the president should stick to persuading Congress to approve his policies. That’s the real rule of law. The post ‘Parole in Place’ for Illegal Aliens Amounts to More Lawless Executive Arrogance appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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