Posts on Friday, June 19, 2020
Malcolm Harsch, the Black man found hanging from a tree near a library in Victorville, died from an apparent suicide, according to family.
In a statement released Friday, the family said Harsch took his own life.
Najee Ali, a community activist and spokesman for Harsch's family, said in the statement that police showed the family "video evidence."
As the investigation into the May 31 death of Harsch continued, detectives obtained surveillance video from a vacant building near where his body was discovered. The video confirmed the absence of foul play, authorities said.
Exposure to air pollution and high temperatures driven by climate change have been linked to negative effects on pregnancies across the US, according to a landmark new study. Pregnant women exposed to hazardous environmental conditions are more likely to have babies who are premature, underweight or stillborn, with black mothers and their infants most at risk. The investigation, published on Thursday, is the first to provide "big picture evidence" of the links between newborns and climate change in the US population, analysing data on 32.8 million births between 2007 and 2019.(Snip) The report is also further evidence that black and minority communities disproportionately
On questions of immigration, the Supreme Court seems to be representing the interests of foreign nationals who haven't bothered to come to the U.S. legally.
They threw out the perfectly legitimate request to reinstate the 2020 Census question on U.S. citizenship, something that has been on that form since the dawn of the Census and only recently was dropped, saying the Trump administration hadn't presented a good enough reason to do it.
Now they've done the same thing on the question of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the Obama administration executive order that permits a large bloc of illegal aliens to work
By the time the Twins reached out this week to several of their prominent former players, the decision already had been made. The statue of former owner Calvin Griffith, the man who brought Major League Baseball to Minnesota in 1961, was being removed. In the early hours of Friday morning, just that occurred. The statue of the first team owner, standing in front of Target Field since the ballpark opened in 2010, was hauled away by a construction crew. A sheet of plywood covered the location, with a handmade “BLM” (Black Lives Matter) sign attached, was all that remained by mid-morning.
If you've been paying attention recently, and you probably have, you've likely sensed that something profound is happening to this country right now, something that could transform what America is. You can feel it happening. Our leaders deny it. Officials on both sides reassure us they're not planning wholesale changes to the country. They're just trying to fix specific problems. A man was brutalized by police officers in Minneapolis. Another man was shot to death in the parking lot of Wendy's. Those things were bad, they are telling us, and abuses like that are what they are fighting against.
Radical St. Louis Islamist Umar Lee was arrested in Ferguson, Missouri in September 2014. Umar Lee once threatened to behead his critics and watch them squeal “like Daniel Pearl.” Lee was cuffed and detained in September 2014 in Ferguson.(Photo) Umar Lee is now passing around a petition to remove the grand St. Louis Statue from Art Hill in Forest Park in St. Louis.The petition calls for St. Louis to be renamed.Via KMOX: A petition has been made with hopes of changing the city’s name in St. Louis and taking down a statue of its namesake, Saint Louis IX in Forest Park.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday again defended his administration’s now-scrapped nursing home policy that critics say contributed to thousands of coronavirus deaths, slamming the controversy as “a shiny object” and “pure politics.”Cuomo’s comments came during an interview on New York’s WAMC-AM on Thursday. He was asked about the criticism and whether he acknowledged the policy was “on the wrong track.”“No,” the Democratic governor responded. “The nursing home is an unfortunate situation on two levels. Number 1, people in nursing homes died. The nursing home [controversy] is pure politics, the Republicans in Congress, they think there’s a vulnerability.”
TULSA, Okla.—Tulsa officials say there is no longer a curfew in effect for downtown ahead of President Trump’s visit on Saturday.UPDATE 6/19/2020:Tulsa police said on Thursday, Mayor GT Bynun, under the advisement of Federal Authorities, put a portion of downtown Tulsa under a curfew for the safety of civilians who were coming to attend President Trump’s rally and those who were wanting to demonstrate.Friday, after discussing it with President Trump, Mayor Bynum decided to rescind his Executive Order.In lieu of the Executive Order, a secure zone has been established by the United States Secret Service in cooperation with the Tulsa Police Department and multiple law enforcement agencies. This limited-access secure
With the help of stolen U.S. technology, China has developed at least three types of high-tech weapons to attack the electric grid and key technologies in a “surprise Pearl Harbor” assault that could send America into a deadly blackout, according to a new analysis.
According to the report from the independent EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security, China has built a network of satellites, high-speed missiles, and “super-electromagnetic pulse” weapons that could melt down the U.S. electric network, fry critical communications, and stifle aircraft carrier groups.
According to the report, written by the task force’s executive director, Peter Pry, long an expert on EMP warfare,
Information provided exclusively to The Federalist shows YouTube removed a Heritage Foundation video featuring testimony from a former transgender-identifying woman for violating the company’s hate speech policy. YouTube confirmed the decision in a Thursday email to The Federalist.Now Heritage is fighting back with a new video, released first to The Federalist, in which Federalist contributor Walt Heyer doubles down.“I said that children suffering from gender dysphoria should not be encouraged to try experimental hormones in surgery, and I stand by that statement,” Heyer emphasizes.
Former Secretary of State John Kerry raised the possibility that a victory by President Trump could provoke a revolution in the United States, claiming that Republicans have a history of denying voting rights to Democratic voters.
“If people don't have adequate access to the ballot, I mean that's the stuff on which revolutions are built,” Kerry said during a virtual appearance at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit. “If you begin to deny people the capacity of your democracy to work, even the Founding Fathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, we have an inherent right to challenge that. And I'm worried that increasingly, people are disaffected."
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany chastised CNN’s Jim Acosta for interrupting her and continuing to talk over her during Friday’s press briefing.When McEnany first gave Acosta the go-ahead to speak, she joked about limiting him to 20 questions. He began with several questions about the president’s planned rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and whether or notAcosta had asked several questions about a video, shared by President Donald Trump, that Twitter earmarked as “manipulated media” — and then proceeded to talk over McEnany while she attempted to respond to his questions. Watch: (Video)
Andrew Cuomo knocks Trump for holding
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Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized President Trump’s plan to hold a rally in Oklahoma by saying he wouldn’t allow such a rally to take place in New York.
“No. No. Look, the president’s position all along has been a political position,” Cuomo said when asked by CNN’s Anderson Cooper if he would allow a large political rally in New York. “His position was, you know, 'This is a virus. It’s a flu. Don’t worry about it. Reopen the economy. Reopen the economy. Reopen the economy.' He believes his reelection is correlated to the economy."
Cuomo continued: “I don’t even think that’s right, politically. I think it’s correlated to leadership,
Meghan Markle's instinct to leave the United Kingdom and move to California all makes sense to her now, as she believes she was 'destined' to help fight systemic racism in the United States, a close friend exclusively told DailyMail.com. The Duchess feels that her 'gnawing urgency to uproot from England' was fate so she could be at the 'forefront' of the movement, the insider explained.They added: 'Meghan said her work as a leader is more important than ever right now and that she’s been speaking with Oprah and other community leaders on how she can be part of the solution. 'Meghan feels like her mission goes far beyond acting.
Fears that President Trump might win a second term are a significantly bigger motivator for Democratic voters than genuine enthusiasm for Joe Biden, a new national poll found.
The Fox News poll released on Thursday revealed that 61% of self-identified Democrats are planning to vote this November because they “fear the other candidate might win." Just 33% said enthusiasm for Biden was their primary motivation for supporting the former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee. Democratic women are more concerned with Trump than Democratic men, with 67% citing fear of Trump as their main motivator.
CBS News drew criticism Wednesday for a headline on a story involving police shooting and killing a black man without mentioning the man allegedly opened fire first.
“Deputies kill half-brother of black man found hanged in park,” a CBS headline posted on Twitter Wednesday read, referring to the death of Terron Jammal Boone.
Boone was the half-brother of Robert Fuller, a black man found hanging in a park on June 10 in what was first believed to be a suicide before the coroner walked back that conclusion.
The tweet doesn’t include the police report that states officers attempted to stop Boone,
A Nebraska restaurant is closing its doors for good after backlash from residents over an item on its menu considered racially insensitive.
The 11-Worth Cafe in Omaha, Nebraska, announced it was closing permanently after allegedly receiving “numerous threats” to family members. The threats include two instances where police had to be called, as well as a reported extortion attempt in which residents demanded it make a donation to a charity for black Americans for the threats to stop, according to WOWT News.
The restaurant, considered a staple in the community, came under fire over a menu item named after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
A shocking Zogby Analytics poll found a majority of voters believe presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden is “in the early stages of dementia.”
The survey, released Wednesday, said 55 percent of likely voters think “it was more likely that Vice President Biden is in the early stages of dementia, while 45 percent think it was less likely.”
The poll found 56 percent of independents think “Joe Biden had early-onset dementia.” Seventy-seven percent of Republicans believe so, while nearly a third of Democrats, 32 percent, believe it.
Sixty percent of young voters, those aged 18-24 and 50 percent of 65 or older voters believe Biden is in cognitive decline.
Young daughter of Chip and Joanna Gaines
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Fixer-upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines and all five of their children joined former NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho on Wednesday to talk about the state of race relations in the country following high-profile deaths of black men at the hands of police.During an appearance on Acho’s Instagram series, “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man,” one of the Gaines’ children, Emmie, asked Acho if he was “afraid of white people.”After letting out a surprised laugh, Acho thought for a moment and responded.“I’m not afraid of white people — I’m cautious of white people,” Acho said.
A majority of Boston’s City Council is demanding that Mayor Martin Walsh cut the police budget by 10% and move more than $300 million to social programs, according to a letter the councilors delivered to Walsh on Friday, the Juneteenth holiday. “A Black and Brown Agenda for Boston is about more than just rhetoric, it is about the lives of Black and Brown Bostonians—the value of which is not up for debate,” the letter states. “At this time in our nation’s history, we need swift, decisive and comprehensive action.”(Snip) The councilors also call for putting $300 million toward housing programs, creating a fund
Appearing Friday on CNN’s The Lead, Black Lives Matter Global Network co-founder Patrisse Cullors said President Donald Trump should resign from office immediately and said, “our goal is to get Trump out.” (Tweet/Video) A transcript is as follows: JAKE TAPPER: I’ve heard a lot of criticism of former Vice President Joe Biden from civil rights activists. The election, obviously, will be a choice. How do you think Biden matches up compared to President Trump when it comes to these issues that are important to you? PATRISSE CULLORS: Trump not only needs to not be in office in November but he should resign now.
Immigrant-rights activists took a victory lap Friday over Fairfax County’s new sanctuary policy limiting police cooperation with federal immigration agents, saying it could protect thousands of illegal immigrants from being deported. Police General Order 604 bans officers from complying with warrants issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying they are civil detainers, not court-approved warrants. It also bans ICE deportation officers from access to county police buildings, and it encourages officers to release people on summonses rather than arrest and book them for minor infractions, which could help keep them off ICE’s radar.
The maker of Eskimo Pies will change the 99-year-old brand name of the ice cream treat, the company said Friday—becoming the latest organization to overhaul the marketing of a product with a racially tinged moniker in recent weeks. The owner of the Eskimo Pie, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, said in a statement they had been considering renaming the chocolate-covered ice cream bar and popsicle for some time. “We are committed to being a part of the solution on racial equality, and recognize the term is derogatory,” the company’s head of marketing said in a statement. “This move is part of a larger review
Watch live as supporters of President Donald Trump line up a day early on Friday for the president’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday.
Trump supporters had even lined up as early as Monday which is is expected to draw at least 100,000 people — one fourth of Tulsa’s population.
While waiting in line late Thursday evening, confusion set in after Tulsa’s mayor issued a curfew for the area surrounding the venue that will house the event. Trump supporters, however, had already been in the area, waiting in anticipation of Saturday’s rally.
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Why in the world would House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put together a $3 trillion bill that has no chance in high heaven of being enacted? And force Democrats to vote for it anyway?
Her strategy in this episode didn’t quite fit her image in the media as a brilliant political boss. Instead, her pursuit of a legislative package to nowhere was what Republicans saw as an effort to keep her squabbling caucus united.
Pelosi has “a real problem managing her caucus,” says Karl Rove, an adviser to President George W. Bush and now a columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
Police brutality protests in the Atlanta area intensified this week after 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by a police officer Friday night. Since the officers involved in the case have been relieved of their duties and charged for Brooks' death, the police department has seen a surge in fellow officers calling out of work — and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says police morale "is down ten-fold." In an interview with CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on Wednesday, the mayor said that police morale around the country is down. "... and I think ours is down ten-fold," Mayor Bottoms said. "This
Amy McGrath, the former Marine fighter pilot, heads into Tuesday's Kentucky Senate primary the presumptive Democratic frontrunner to take on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, with the backing of the national Democratic establishment and a $41 million war chest. But it might not be enough to get through the primary. (Snip) Booker, who centers his platform on several progressive planks, has garnered the backing of Congresswoman Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., the freshman phenom; Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-V.t., a leader of the progressive movement; Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.; Tom Steyer, another former presidential contender; Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., a member of the
In recent weeks, Americans have watched radical leftist anarchists and Antifa thugs engage in extreme violence and murder that will haunt many people for the rest of their lives.
Fifteen innocent civilians and two police officers were shot and killed, hundreds of civilians were savagely and brutally beaten, and more than 700 police officers were injured nationwide. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property was destroyed as businesses and communities in more than 42 states were devastated by arson, looting, and mayhem that activists quickly followed with a call to defund the police.
The supposed justification for the rioting was the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, but
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday reversed course and said Friday the U.S. Navy will not reinstate Capt. Brett Crozier to command the aircraft carrier USS Roosevelt, after he wrote a letter warning about the coronavirus outbreak aboard the ship. The letter was later leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle.
After a formal investigation, Gidlay changed his mind about reinstating Crozier upon learning more details about what led to 1,200 of the 5,000 sailors aboard the ship testing positive for COVID-19, a senior defense official told Fox News.
In addition, the promotion of Capt. Crozier’s commanding officer Rear Adm. Stuart Baker to two-star admiral will be delayed.
Grenell trashes Bolton, claims ex-security
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Former acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell claimed on "The Ingraham Angle" Thursday that former National Security Adviser John Bolton saved "salacious stories" to sell copies of his forthcoming memoir of the Trump administration.
Grenell, also a former U.S. ambassador to Germany, told host Laura Ingraham that Bolton "ran an NSC [National Security Council] that leaked like crazy. Everything that happened leaked out of the NSC. Is it no surprise that somehow all of these stories didn't leak when everything else was leaking?
"I have to say that everyone should be troubled by someone who is unwilling to testify under oath, but that is willing to speak under a book deal,"
The Oklahoma Supreme Court paved the way for President Trump's Tulsa rally to take place. The court rejected an appeal from a previous lawsuit on Friday that sought to block the campaign from holding a rally indoors on the basis that it could lead to the spread of the coronavirus. The suit, which was filed on behalf of local residents in the historically black district of Greenwood earlier this week, demanded the arena to enforce social distancing guidelines.The plaintiffs wanted the court to issue a temporary injunction against ASM Global, the parent company of the organization that manages the BOK Center, "to protect against a substantial, imminent, and
Former Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Peggy Hubbard warned that America is about to step over the “thin blue line between chaos and order. The Navy veteran and former police officer came to the defense of law enforcement in an emotional Facebook Live video shared this week, warning that the nation stands at the edge of coming chaos as officers who have been disrespected continue to abandon their posts. (Video) Hubbard revealed that friends who are police officers in California, Florida and Georgia have confirmed that members of law enforcement are walking off the job following recent weeks of unrest and anti-police sentiment in some major cities.
Shocking! Susan Rice Quotes Trotsky,
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Earlier today Susan Rice said Trump supporters belong in the “trash heap of history.” (Tweet/Video) This happens to be the same belief Trotsky had on his political opponents!— Russian Bolshevik Leon Trotsky referring to the Mensheviks: “Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!” (Tweet/Video) This was quite a statement from the Obama operative who left behind a trail of genocide and lies when she retired from office in 2017. This ad appeared in The New York Times in February 2015 pointing our her role in the Rwandan genocide. “Susan Rice has a blind spot: Genocide,”
The Vatican on Thursday urged Catholics to divest from fossil fuels, a call made in church documents warning against the dangers of climate change.
The 225-page encyclical, which is sent to all bishops within the church, also encouraged divesting from arms and monitoring sectors like mining to ensure they are not damaging the environment.
The document, "Journeying Towards Care For Our Common Home," argues people “could favor positive changes ... by excluding from their investments companies that do not satisfy certain parameters,” according to Reuters.
Counsel of the Woke
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America has reached an epistemological breaking point. For the first two months following the coronavirus outbreak, public-health experts insisted that we “follow the science” and implement their recommendations, even if it meant millions of lost jobs and significant restrictions on constitutionally protected activities, such as church attendance and freedom of assembly. Blue-state governors quickly positioned themselves as executors of this neutral scientific knowledge, condemning anti-lockdown protesters as “anti-scientific;” meantime, social media companies banned anti-lockdown groups and censored content from lockdown skeptics.
But when protests erupted in the U.S. after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, many public-health experts reversed course—and subordinated “science” to their activist politics.
Ben & Jerry’s isn’t leaving the company’s stance up for interpretation. The beloved ice cream maker took to Instagram Friday to speak out about the importance of Juneteenth, which emancipated black Americans who remained enslaved two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. “Defund the police, defend Black communities!” Ben & Jerry’s captioned a brightly colored image of a black individual scooping ice cream. “This #Juneteenth, it’s more important than ever that we dismantle the racist and ineffective model of American policing. Learn more about how defunding the police works and why we desperately need it.” The scooper reads “DEFUND the POLICE,” and a sign in the largest
Not even the Father of Our Country is safe.
First lady Chirlane McCray will put statues and structures honoring historic figures tainted by slavery — including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — under the microscope as part of a new “Commission on Racial Justice and Reconciliation,” Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday.
Hizzoner’s move comes a day after five city lawmakers — including City Council Speaker Corey Johnson — sent a letter requesting the statue of Jefferson be removed from the council’s chamber, as leaders across the city and nation struggle to respond to weeks of protests over racism that followed the death of George Floyd.
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When I first saw the mural of George Floyd with large angel wings, I assumed that it was a satire on his sanctification—effective, perhaps, but not in the best of taste. Shortly afterwards, however, I realized that the mural was in earnest: The picture of the mural in the newspaper included a man genuflecting before it, (Snip)
Another example of the relation between sentimentality and brutality has been the use of very young children in demonstrations. There are videos of two girls, 9 and 7, one making a speech at a demonstration and the other marching in a demonstration, her pretty little face contorted with hatred, chanting a horrible slogan,
You’re going to just love your new country when it comes to your neighborhood–
The far left citizens of CHOP, formerly CHAZ, attempted last night to hoist a giant Black Power Fist statue inside their commune.But the statue was too heavy for the far left activists and feminist allies so they abandoned their project.(Photo) This gives us a glimpse of the future where the only approved statues will be the black power fists and the hammer and sickle. Here’s the video – via local Seattle reporter Hanna Scott from KIRO:
Days after George Floyd died at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, a different scene was playing out in what was once the most dangerous city in the United States. Joseph D. Wysocki was marching in the streets of Camden alongside residents in “Black Lives Matter” T-shirts. He found the organizer of the protest: Yolanda Deaver. Wysocki introduced himself and asked whether he could join her. Absolutely, she said, and the two started marching together, holding up a sign reading STANDING IN SOLIDARITY. And then they posed for a now-viral photo.
A young high school history teacher, named Annie, posted a TikTok video raving about Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States,” which she explains will be her new classroom textbook.Howard Zinn’s 1980 left-wing revisionist history book, “A People’s History of the United States,” is a Marxist’s take on American history. This class warfare, victim narrative, famously praised by Matt Damon in his 1997 academy award winning movie, Good Will Hunting, has sold more than two million copies and gone through five editions. In short, the book is a Marxist narrative whereby American history is viewed exclusively through the prism of race and class.
A 1940s-era bus where a 24-year-old adventurer starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness has been removed after tourists died while trying to reach it. A US Army helicopter airlifted the vehicle from the spot just west of the Teklanika River, where it had been left to rust for more than half a century. The bus was made famous by Into The Wild, a book and film that told the story of Chris McCandless' death after he lived inside it for 114 days during the summer of 1992.
n the clangorous pre-electoral atmosphere created by the COVID-19 crisis, its economic consequences, and the disorders that have followed the apparent murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, there have been some important foreign policy developments, though they are largely ignored by the media. The Trump Administration’s exasperation with the conduct of Germany and China, as well as the perennial problems of Iran and North Korea, have not conveniently abated while America’s domestic preoccupations have unfolded.
Germany potentially is and should behave as if it were the third most powerful country in the world after the United States and China.
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, ruling that the Trump Administration failed to comply with federal regulation procedures.
In an opinion for the 5-4 majority, Chief Justice John Roberts explained, “we address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action.” Justice Clarence Thomas, (Snip) thought there was more to it.
“The majority today concludes that [the Department of Homeland Security] was required to do far more,” Thomas wrote. (Snip) the majority was holding the decision of the Trump Administration to a higher standard than President Barack Obama’s “executive action” that established DACA illegally
Half-Brother Of Robert Fuller Killed In Kern County
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A kidnapping suspect was killed in a shootout with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies in the Kern County community of Rosamond Wednesday afternoon which also left a woman wounded. The man who was killed has been identified by a family attorney as Terron Jammal Boone, who is believed to be the half-brother of 24-year-old Robert Fuller, a black man who was found hanging from a tree last week in Palmdale. (snip)According to LASD, detectives were tracking a suspect wanted for kidnapping, spousal assault and assault with a deadly weapon when they identified a man matching his description in a car which was being driven by a woman.
Sir Ian Holm -- perhaps best known for playing Bilbo in 'The Lord of the Rings' films -- died Friday morning after a long battle with Parkinson's disease ... according to his agent. The Oscar-nominated actor died peacefully in the hospital with his family by his side, the agent added. Holm was born in England in 1931, and got into theater acting at a young age, studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduating in 1950 to the Royal Shakespeare Company ... where he became a star of the stage. Corrections*
Protesters on Thursday went to the Rochester home of GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to lay a wreath of flowers in response to his recent comment appearing to blame immigrant “culture” for a COVID-19 outbreak in Racine County.
“We’re here to send a message to Robin Vos, who hasn’t had to risk his life or the life of a loved one to work to support them,” said Christine Neumann-Ortiz, executive director of immigrant advocacy group Voces de La Frontera.
Neumann-Ortiz called on Vos to resign, apologize and "support real change.”
So the trends on Twitter are in and Kamala Harris has risen to the top of Joe Biden's heap for vice presidential picks. (Snip for tweet) Some random responses, none good: (Snip for tweets) She's black, and she's female, which is Biden's criteria for picking a vice president. And unless he wants to go Norbit with Stacey Abrams, Harris might just be all he's got, given how he's boxed himself in.
Given how Biden is showing greater signs of senility than ever, they might as well even declare her the real president, if heaven forbid, Biden should win.
Harris sees that, which is why she's jumping at the chance.
An interesting new discovery amid revelations into the background motives of President Obama to weaponize the intelligence apparatus against his political opposition.(Image)Today former Trump campaign foreign policy advisor Walid Phares identified himself as the fifth target in the August 2, 2017, Rosenstein scope memo. (Snip)With this admission/discovery a more interesting background makes sense.(Snip)Both George Papadopoulos and Whalid Phares were involved in connecting Egyptian leader Fattah Abdel al-Sisi with President Trump in New York for their first meeting.President al-Sisi was a key political nemisis of President Obama because of al-Sisi’s position against the Muslim Brotherhood, specifically against Mohammed Morsi, the brotherhood installed dictator of Egypt during
It’s as plain as the spectacles on Paul Howard’s face: The Fulton County district attorney is bastardizing his office to hang on to his job. Wednesday’s news conference where Howard announced charges against two Atlanta cops was a travesty. It was a wounded candidate using the death of a man killed by police to weave together a series of bald-faced prevarications and obfuscations to get past a challenger who has him on the ropes.
Ex-Trump adviser breaks silence on Russia
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probe, says Iran deal played role in false
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For more than two years now, Walid Phares has kept a secret. The national security expert favored by many conservatives was interviewed and investigated in the Russia collusion probe, mostly for an issue unrelated to Moscow. It was Egypt, actually.
The allegation — like many in the Russia case —, turned out to be spurious, and Phares was never charged with wrongdoing by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.
Now, Phares is speaking out for the first time, suggesting that one of the motives of those who made the allegations and sustained the investigation was to hamper the early Trump presidency’s foreign policy goals, including the (Snip)plan to cancel the Obama-era Iran nuclear
MSNBC's Morning Joe was certainly on a roll Thursday morning. While discussing the latest revelations hidden with former National Security Advisor John Bolton's tell-all book that was leaked yesterday afternoon, co-host Joe Scarborough went on a rant saying that President Trump wanted to kill journalists. After touting Bolton's allegation that Trump supported the execution of journalists in China, Scarborough quickly made it all about the press here in the U.S, saying that he thought Trump would “execute” American journalists. (Video)
As far as exit interviews are concerned, this one was unofficial and especially ugly.
In his forthcoming book, “The Room Where It Happened,” John Bolton condemns President Trump as a bumbling executive and mocks Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin as a political opportunist and dismisses Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as generally averse to conflict.
But he doesn’t stop there, as one rising GOP star is finding out.
The highly unflattering 494-page tome, cataloguing the former national security adviser’s time in the Trump White House, seems destined for bestseller lists — that is, if it can get published. Citing national security concerns late Wednesday,
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For more than two years now, Walid Phares has kept a secret. The national security expert favored by many conservatives was interviewed and investigated in the Russia collusion probe, mostly for an issue unrelated to Moscow. It was Egypt, actually.
The allegation — like many in the Russia case —, turned out to be spurious, and Phares was never charged with wrongdoing by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.
Now, Phares is speaking out for the first time, suggesting that one of the motives of those who made the allegations and sustained the investigation was to hamper the early Trump presidency’s foreign policy goals, including the 45th president’s
With the Supreme Court’s latest erroneous decision on immigration, Chief Justice John Roberts and other justices have done lasting damage to the Constitution, the rule of law, and accountable government.
It is not just the legally wrong decision Thursday in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, in which Roberts and the liberal justices refused 5-4 to allow the Trump administration to terminate the unlawful Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program implemented by the Obama administration without congressional approval.
Or the unsound decision Monday authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch where six of the nine justices took it upon themselves to legislate from the bench by rewriting
The Seattle Soviet
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"What," Marx asked, "is the Commune, that sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois mind?"
In 1871 the Commune was the revolutionary government of Paris, a revolt against the newborn Third Republic of Adolphe Thiers. The communards, drawn from the ranks of city-dwelling laborers, overthrew the republican army and replaced it with an armed guard. The police were disbanded—or "defunded"—and reconstituted as an agency of the Commune. "It aimed to expropriate the expropriators." Churches were closed, judges were disestablished, and offices redistributed among the masses of the people.
"In a rough sketch of national organization which the Commune had no time to develop," Marx wrote in "The Civil War in France,"
Now it’s Unpopular Mechanics. Popular Mechanics magazine has come under fire after publishing a detailed guide on toppling monuments. “Bring that sucker down without anyone getting hurt,” the article posted Monday encourages readers, promising the best advice on “how to topple a statue using science.” Author James Stout says his article is inspired by the worldwide attacks on “problematic monuments” tied to the “legacy of racism” amid ongoing protests. “Should you happen to find yourself near a statue that you decide you no longer like, we asked scientists for the best, safest ways to bring it to the ground without anyone getting hurt
It's Time to Bench Fauci
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The single biggest threat against President Donald Trump's reelection in November isn't unhinged liberals out for blood, a hostile media or even a politicized U.S. Supreme Court; it's Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease adviser on the White House Coronavirus Task Force. If he's not reined in, then he may succeed in making Trump a one-term president.
Here's why. One of the most important things an incumbent needs to secure reelection is a strong economy, but due to the radical lockdown and months-long national quarantine Fauci championed in March to mitigate the pandemic, the U.S. economy was dealt a devastating blow, resulting in 46 million Americans losing their jobs.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused John Bolton Thursday of lying in his forthcoming book about his stint at the White House, calling the former national security adviser a “traitor who damaged America.”“I’ve not read the book, but from the excerpts I’ve seen published, John Bolton is spreading a number of lies, fully-spun half-truths, and outright falsehoods,” Pompeo said in a statement released Thursday evening with the headline, “I Was In The Room Too.”The title is a spoof of Bolton’s memoir, “The Room Where It Happened.”In the book, which is scheduled for release June 23,
“As many of you know… a Taser is considered as a deadly weapon under Georgia law.”
Those are the words of Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard two weeks ago – before he announced murder charges Wednesday against the fired Atlanta police officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks on Friday during a confrontation outside a Wendy’s restaurant.
Howard’s adamant pronouncement that a Taser is a deadly weapon came in an unrelated criminal case and was made in front of television cameras and microphones. His words will surely come back to haunt him as he attempts to prosecute former Officer Garrett Rolfe on 11 criminal charges including felony murder,
TULSA, Okla. — Law enforcement released more details on their plan to provide maximum security for President Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa.The Tulsa Police Department says they are working with the Secret Service to provide maximum security for Trump as the country is in a state of unrest.They say to expect significant restrictions to roads in the downtown Tulsa area from Thursday to Saturday. Tulsa police are partnering with local, state and federal agencies including surrounding city and regional law enforcement and other first responders as well as the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and special operations teams.Tuesday, law enforcement officials announced the national guard has been called into assist.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pointed to clusters of “overwhelmingly Hispanic” day laborers and agriculture workers for driving the state’s recent coronavirus spike—but farmworkers and industry associations argue that resources and testing came too late to those communities, according to new reports. The Republican governor told reporters Tuesday that cramped living and working conditions for migrant workers and Hispanic construction workers are partly to blame, according to WFOR-TV. “Some of these guys go to work in a school bus, and they are all just packed there like sardines, going across Palm Beach County or some of these other places, and there’s all these opportunities
An armed auto body shop security guard was fatally shot by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies Thursday night, a report said. The man, identified by his boss to CBSLA as 18-year-old Andres Guardado, was shot at about 6 p.m. after running from deputies in the town of Gardena. “The police came up, and they pulled their guns on him and he ran because he was scared, and they shot and killed him,” Andrew Heney, the shop’s owner, told the network. “He’s got a clean background and everything. There’s no reason.” It was not immediately clear what led police to respond to the location in the first place.
It’s been a long way down for Anthony Fauci, MD – from virtual dictator of a nation under virtual house arrest (and purported sex symbol) to laughingstock caught lying and blaming the public for his fall.
Fauci finally fessed up to his face mask fabulations. He lied to us for our own good, of course. (snip) Now, Fauci is complaining that ignorant Americans “don’t believe science and they don’t believe authority.” (snip) As a result, his announcement that “football may not happen” is meeting outright defiance from the NFL
Thursday on PBS’s “NewsHour,” former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams made her case for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to choose her as his running mate.Host Judy Woodruff asked, “We know Joe Biden is considering you, among others, to be his vice-presidential running mate. Why are you the most qualified? You haven’t served in the Congress and the Senate, you haven’t run a state. What is your answer to that?”Abrams said, “My answer is that Joe Biden knows who the most qualified person for him to be his partner will be.
Free Will Baptists founded Hillsdale College in 1844 under the name Michigan Central College. (snip) It wasn’t enough that – unlike every elite college in America – Hillsdale has spent the last 176 years dedicating itself to the principle that, in a world predicated on the Constitution and the Judeo-Christian Bible, all lives matter. In our new McCarthyite world, Hillsdale was told that “Silence is violence.”
So, Hillsdale spoke. The official Hillsdale statement does not lend itself to an easy summary. You have to read it all, especially the last paragraph. When you’re done, you'll find yourself wishing that every academic institution and corporation in America would have the courage
CHICAGO -- The Chicago area will mark Juneteenth with a series marches and rallies Friday. A Chicago pastor and his South Side church are preparing to lead a march downtown that will step off at Roosevelt and Columbus. Pastor Chris Harris of Bright Star Church said this will include a coalition of groups and people of faith in a march against racism. The rally and march to Grant Park is being held today on Juneteenth, a nationally celebrated day to recognize the emancipation of slaves in the United States. Not only will marchers fight to end systemic racism, but the day
A few years ago, something mildly embarrassing occurred at a Halloween party hosted by a Washington Post cartoonist: A white woman painted her face black and wore a name tag that read "Hello, My Name is Megyn Kelly," in reference to the TV host's controversial defense of white people wearing blackface. The intended butt of the joke would appear to be Kelly, not black people. Regardless, several guests approached the woman and explained to her that it was still not OK to wear blackface. The woman reportedly left the party in tears. Suffice it to say, this is not a story that needed to be told. Corrections*
John Bolton's Shameful Tantrum
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The world is now shocked — shocked — to discover that President Trump’s private style is no different than his public style. He flatters foreign leaders (Xi Jinping is “the greatest Chinese leader ever”), the better to disarm them; he cares more about pleasing his constituents, for example, American farmers and industrial workers, than about the neo-conservative illusion about exporting democracy; he has a temper (certain annoying people “should be shot”); he has a diverse cabinet (“panda-huggers” like Mnuchin, free-traders like Larry Kudlow, and China hawks like Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Secretary of State Pompeo).
That’s the brunt of John Bolton’s tell-all White House memoir.
During World War II, Allied political leaders flashed a two-finger salute signifying a “V,” for “Victory.” Today that same salute might instead denote “V” for “V-shaped recovery,” a victory of another kind. Across the nation, as the pandemic lockdowns slowly end, the economy is picking up pace. Will it continue? Sure looks that way.
Don’t be fooled by Thursday’s report on weekly jobless claims, which rose 1.51 million for the week ending June 13, causing a mild stock market sell-off after it was announced. That’s a bad number, to be sure, and higher than the 1.3 million expected by most
Masks get politicized
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Mask-wearing is becoming increasingly politicized.California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, announced Thursday that mask-wearing is compulsory in most public settings, making California the 11th state to mandate people to wear masks. Public spaces include every workspace, public transit, and any facility in which people receive medical care.President Trump, meanwhile, has discounted the benefits of wearing a mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. He told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Thursday that Americans who wear masks are signaling disapproval of him. He added that his biggest problem with masks is that people fidget too much with them to be effective.
A statue of George Washington was toppled by Antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, Oregon Thursday night. The statue and its base were spray-pained with anti-American slogans including the New York Times “1619” propaganda slur. American flags were burned on Washington. No police were present until the statue was felled.(Photos,Tweets,Videos)
Confusion descended upon downtown Tulsa on Thursday evening after the mayor issued a curfew for the area surrounding the BOK Center, where Trump supporters have already begun gathering in anticipation of Saturday’s rally. Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum (R) signed an executive order instituting a 10 p.m. curfew for the area around the Bank of Oklahoma (BOK) Center, where the president’s rally is set to take place.“As part of our preparations for President Trump’s Rally this Saturday, we are working on making the area secure for everyone’s safety,” the Tulsa Police Department said in a statement posted to social media late Thursday.
A Democratic mayor in Washington state spoke out this week against the protests supporting the Black Lives Matter movement — after a group of vandals damaged her home.Mayor Cheryl Selby of Olympia, the state’s capital, told The Olympian this week that she was “really trying to process” the news that her home had been vandalized.“It’s like domestic terrorism. It’s unfair. It hurts when you’re giving so much to your community,” Selby told the outlet.The mayor of the largely Democratic city argued that she was facing three crises at once, “COVID-19, homelessness, and 400 years of racial injustice.”According to the paper, a group of protesters went to Selby’s home
President Trump's reelection campaign wants former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to lead an effort demanding extra presidential debates, believing Trump will gain from them by shining a spotlight on presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Three events are on the calendar so far: on Sept. 29 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, Oct. 15 at the University of Michigan, and Oct. 22 at Belmont University in Nashville.
Both October debates coincide with Thursday night football games, which Trump officials believe could limit viewership, so Giuliani has been tasked with scheduling debates for any weekday night but Thursday to prevent overlapping with the NFL games.
When you’re out having drinks with friends, are your personal conversations about politics private? Should they be?
According to at least one New England restaurant, the answer is no. And thus far, advocates for #BlackLivesMatter and other progressive political causes agree.
Since the beginning of the protests following George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, what critics call “cancel culture” has been operating overtime. The premise of “cancel culture” is that people should be denied access to media platforms or publicly shamed into apologizing for expressing opinions unpopular with progressive activists.
The Fulton County DA’s decision to charge officer Garrett Rolfe with murder struck me as highly dubious. It strikes Andy McCarthy as outrageous. Having read his article, I’m with Andy.
The murder charge is “felony murder.” This is an effort to get around the difficulty of proving that Rolfe intended to kill Rayshard Brooks. As McCarthy explains, “the homicide theory of felony murder is that, while the offender does not specifically intend to cause death, he does intentionally commit a felony from which death results.”
There still needs to be a felony, though. In this case, the alleged felony is aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Remember the heady days of June 2016, when Hillary Clinton led Donald Trump in every one of twelve major polls — by a margin of 10 points, according to ABC and the Washington Post?
Or August 2016, after the Khan imbroglio, when Clinton was beating Trump by 7 points, according to USA Today/Suffolk? It was hardly an outlier.
Or October 2016, after the exposition of the "Billy Bush tapes," when, coming up on the election, Clinton was beating Trump in virtually every poll? Of the 78 polls started after September 21, 2016, 73 had Clinton winning, four had Trump winning, and one was a tie.
On Thursday afternoon, Obama praised the Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump’s ending of DACA was illegal. “Eight years ago this week, we protected young people who were raised as part of our American family from deportation,” Obama tweeted. “Today, I’m happy for them, their families, and all of us.”
I can still remember when Barack Obama was campaigning in 2008, claiming to be the cure to unconstitutional abuses of power he claimed were systemic in the Bush administration. “I take the Constitution very seriously,” he claimed. “The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power
The very first time I saw the Derek Chauvin–George Floyd video I was disgusted. I yelled at my TV screen, “Get off the guy’s neck, you #$%!” I likewise yelled at the three cops on my TV screen standing around watching. Not only is it right that Chauvin now faces second-degree murder charges but also that the three near him face severe felony charges and never serve in any protective or security-related field again. As I have written before, the other main head that would and should roll in a fair world would be that of Medaria Arradondo, the Black police chief of Minneapolis,
Facebook employees are apparently creating exceptions to CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vow to refrain from policing political speech: On Thursday, the social-media giant took down a Trump-campaign ad — citing a preposterous rationale.
“We removed these posts and ads for violating our policy against organized hate,” a Facebook spokesman said: They showed a red, upside-down triangle similar to what Nazis used to classify political prisoners, so they violated the platform’s ban on “using a hate group’s symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol.”
I understand that procedural arguments are boring, ineffective, and passe, and that fewer and fewer American are moved by them. But we might want pollsters and media outlets to understand the difference between policy outcomes and constitutional process.(Snip for tweet) As with the Supreme Court’s recent re-imagining of Title VII protections, the media are acting as if the recent decision preventing Trump from immediately ending DACA was a referendum on values, empathy, and the intrinsic value of “Dreamers,” rather than on the ability of the president to simply fabricate laws by fiat.
By the Time Trump Gets to Tulsa
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Any remaining doubt that curbing President Trump’s campaign rallies was a key goal of the Democratic response to COVID-19 should be quelled by the Democrats’ antic opposition to Saturday’s Trump rally in Tulsa. They began with shrill fear-mongering, despite data showing that daily case rates have plateaued nationally and death rates are declining. They followed up with absurd claims that the rally’s original date was a racist “dog whistle.” As Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) put it, “Tulsa was the site of the worst racist violence in American history. The president’s speech there on Juneteenth [June 19] is a message to every Black American: more of the same.”
As with most states, Illinois has seen a massive increase in unemployment claims since the lockdowns began and business were forced to close and send their workers home. This was particularly true in the densely populated city of Chicago. The system was quickly overwhelmed, with newly unemployed workers complaining that they couldn’t get through either the online system or by phone to submit a claim. Because of the massive backlog, the government essentially abandoned its normal verification process and began approving claims as soon as they were submitted in an effort to clear the backlog.
Former National Security Council Chief of Staff Fred Fleitz told "The Story" Thursday that the "turning point" in President Trump's relationship with former National Security Adviser John Bolton came when the president "decided last June not to bomb Iran."
"You may remember that a drone was shot down," Fleitz told host Martha MacCallum. "And at the last minute, President Trump decided he was not going to attack Iran because we would have killed 100-200 people, no more.
"I thought that was a principled decision," he added. "This wasn't to win votes, this wasn't to promote the president domestically. It reflected the president's principle not to get America
America’s roads, bridges and other infrastructure are being eyed for sorely needed funding boosts, according to a series of Twitter messages from President Trump on Thursday evening.
The president’s messages listed 20 states as being set to divvy up nearly $1 billion in federal dollars – with much of the money being directed to state transportation departments and port operators.
The largest single allocation mentioned by the president Thursday was $135 million proposed for Louisiana – to build 8.3 miles of elevated highway between the Leeville Bridge and Golden Meadow, south of New Orleans, in order to avoid flooding.
The nationally recognized liberal arts institution Hillsdale College has a history of defying political pressure in order to uphold what is good and true. Its recent refusal to give in to the demands of those who think a public statement is necessary to fight social injustice is just the most recent example.
Some of the college’s alumni publicly pushed their alma mater to comment on the recent controversies regarding the death of George Floyd and the ensuing protests and riots. When a petition began circulating calling on the college to release a statement, arguing that its “silence” supported violence, the college responded in an open letter.
“The College is pressed to speak.
Twitter Censors President Trump, Labels His
Parody Video Tweet Mocking CNN
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Parody Video Tweet Mocking CNN
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Twitter censored President Trump again on Thursday night. The President tweeted out a hilarious video mocking fake news CNN and Twitter jumped in and labeled it “manipulated media.”The ‘doctored’ video was a spoof on a previous report by CNN of a black and white toddler hugging.“Terrified toddler runs from racist baby.” CNN’s chyron said in the parody video. “Racist baby probably a Trump voter,” the headline said on the next screen. The video then shows the original clip of the toddlers hugging, and says, “America is not the problem. Fake news is.”
WASHINGTON — Sen. Amy Klobuchar won’t be former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate.The Minnesota senator took her name off the list of possible running mates Thursday, saying "this is a moment to put a woman of color" on the Democratic ticket."America must seize on the moment and I truly believe — as I actually told the VP last night when I called him — that I think this is a moment to put a woman of color on that ticket," she told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell in an exclusive interview Thursday night. "And there are so many incredible, qualified women.
Across the United States, a great unraveling is in progress. A rolling crime wave, under the guise of social activism, has left city after American city shattered and smoldering. Armed anarchists seized territory inside Seattle with the blessing of local government. In Minneapolis and other cities, a campaign to enfeeble or eliminate the police has gained full legitimacy. In Kentucky, the governor has vowed to provide free health care only to one racial group. In the private sector, companies such as Uber Eats have pledged their commitment to a policy of race-conscious discrimination as well. And major media organs sanction all of the above as proper and good. Correction*
Even the progressive Democratic mayor of Portland thinks what the Democratic leadership up in Seattle is allowing to take place in the city is absurd.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who just last week gave city employees 40 hours of bereavement leave to “mourn 400 years of African-American oppression, including the police killings of African-Americans across the country,” says he is “absolutely” against the “autonomous zone” that fellow Democratic Mayor Jenny Durkan has allowed to be established in multiple city blocks downtown. The “cop-free” area enabled by Seattle Democrats is both a “distraction” and dangerous, warns Wheeler.
As The Daily Wire has documented, over the last few weeks,
Airlines are always looking to do less … for more.
After the 9-11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001, airlines in America did away with most meal services (and many started charging you $50 for an extra bag — that’ll teach those terrorists!).
Now, with COVID-19 emerging as a new threat in the states, airlines have decided to stop in-flight sales of alcohol on many flights (‘cuz, you know, the coronavirus lives on those little bottles).
“Because COVID-19 can spread through surface contact, airlines have placed an emphasis on reducing ‘touchpoints’ between fliers and airline staff as much as possible. And beverage service is a major source of those touchpoints,”
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Former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, involved in the shooting of Rayshard Brooks at a Wendy’s parking lot last week, was charged with felony murder on Wednesday. On Thursday, Rolfe’s legal team released a statement defending his “justified” actions.
“Rolfe is facing 11 counts, including felony murder and assault with a deadly weapon,” The Daily Wire reported Wednesday evening, adding that Devin Brosnan, Rolfe’s partner, has been placed on administrative leave and is facing three charges.
The incident on Friday started when a Wendy’s employee called the police after Brooks, under the influence of alcohol, passed out behind the wheel, blocking drive-through traffic.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported on Thursday evening that the stepmother of Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, the officer who allegedly shot and killed Rayshard Brooks, has been fired from her job at mortgage company in the area.
“Until today, his stepmother, her name is Melissa Rolfe, was the HR director at a place called Equity Prime Mortgage in Atlanta, Georgia,” Carlson said. “But today, she was let go. She’s no longer in that role, apparently she was fired and her only crime was being officer Rolfe’s stepmother.”
“According to source familiar with the matter who spoke to this program, Rolfe was promised that her job was safe,
Dame Vera Lynn, who became a figure of hope and resilience as the U.K.’s “Forces’ Sweetheart” during World War II, has died at the age of 103. Her family said in a statement they were “deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of Britain’s best-loved entertainers at the age of 103.”(Snip)Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today that her “charm and magical voice entranced and uplifted our country in some of our darkest hours.” Meanwhile, Buckingham Palace has confirmed to the Evening Standard that Queen Elizabeth will be sending a private message of condolence to Lynn’s family.