Posts on Friday, July 2, 2021
This is Joe Biden’s America. A ransomware attack paralyzed networks of more than 200 US companies on Friday. Hackers targeted software supplier Kaseya and penetrated cloud-service providers by going through its network management system. Surprise, surprise, Russians are being blamed for this latest ransomware attack.Associated Press reported: A ransomware attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 U.S. companies on Friday, according to a cybersecurity researcher whose company was responding to the incident.
A Miami firefighter was present when the body of his seven-year-old daughter was recovered from the rubble of the Surfside condo catastrophe in Florida.Officials said the body of Stella Cattarossi was found Tursday, seven days after the collapse of Champlain South Tower which has left 22 confirmed dead and 126 still missing.Friends posting online said the girl was found sleeping alongside her mother Graciela, although authorities have not confirmed whether the mother's body has been found.
A giant ring of flames erupted on the ocean’s surface in the Gulf of Mexico Friday — setting social media ablaze as stunning aerial footage of the “eye of fire” went viral.The bright orange fire west of the Yucatan Peninsula was sparked by a leak from an underwater pipeline, according to Mexican state oil company Pemex.It took more than five hours to fully contain the blaze, which broke out near a Pemex oil platform at around 5:15 a.m., authorities said. No injuries were reported.Company workers used nitrogen to control the inferno, which resembled molten lava swirling on the water.
AOC says Olympic ban on marijuana
is 'instrument' of racism following Black
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is 'instrument' of racism following Black
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New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed Friday the rule barring marijuana use during the Olympic races was an "instrument of racist and colonial policy." The congresswoman’s comments followed the announcement that U.S. champion Sha’Carri Richardson will not be running in the 100-meter race after she tested positive for THC, a chemical found in marijuana, at the Olympic trials – voiding her first-place results.
White House goes into damage
control mode after reports of
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control mode after reports of
dysfunction in Kamala Harris' office replies
The White House dove into damage control this week after reports of dysfunction and infighting in Vice President Kamala Harris' office, with the administration trying to stop a drama-filled narrative from taking hold, according to five people who spoke to CNN about the dynamics within Harris' office. Two people close to Harris' team said some individuals inside the vice president's office are frustrated with what they see as a dysfunctional operation that has been at times waylaid by internal conflict. Some of that ire is directed squarely at Harris' chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, those people said. Another source close
Stephen Breyer denies Left hope
for swift retirement with clerk
hires for Supreme Court fall term replies
for swift retirement with clerk
hires for Supreme Court fall term replies
Anyone hoping Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer would retire at the onset of the summer recess received a discouraging sign on Friday. The high court confirmed Breyer, who is the oldest justice on the bench at the age of 82, hired four clerks for the fall term, according to a report by Bloomberg. The news is sure to frustrate Left-leaning court advocates who have increasingly pressed for Breyer to step down after the sudden death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last year gave former President Donald Trump the chance to cement a conservative majority on the court with the appointment
President Trump held his first rally of the political season on Saturday in Wellington, Ohio at the Lorain County Fairgrounds.Trump held the rally in support of Max Miller who is challenging Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, a Never-Trumper who voted to impeach President Trump in January.The event was PACKED hours before President Trump’s speech.38,000 supporters were watching the rally at 5 PM ET — two hours before the event.Right Side Broadcasting Network aired the live feed for the rally tonight in Ohio.
A copy of the United States Declaration of Independence discovered in an attic in Scotland has sold at auction for more than £3 million. The signer's copy, one of only six known to still be in private hands, is a representation of the original 1776 document that declared the independence of Britain's 13 American colonies. It was presented to the only Catholic Founding Father Charles Carroll of Carrollton, who was one of the signers of the declaration and later a United States senator.He gave it to his grandson-in-law, John MacTavish (1787-1852), a Scottish-Canadian diplomat,
The claims are hard to believe... but the source is so solid and credible that you will find this amazing story hard to dismiss. A Los Angeles policeman says an ultra-secret Police Department file names JFK’s brother Bobby Kennedy as the killer of Marilyn Monroe — and actor Peter Lawford confessed to the cop that he watched the murder unfold... When Marilyn Monroe shrugged off her ermine wrap and handed it to actor Peter Lawford, live on television at Madison Square Garden, she created a moment of pure theatrical Viagra.The 35-year-old star was revealed at the microphone in a skin-tight, rhinestone encrusted gown that made her appear
Biden Allows Passengers To Pick Their Own
Gender On Passports, Select ‘X’ Instead
Of ‘M’ Or ‘F’ replies
Gender On Passports, Select ‘X’ Instead
Of ‘M’ Or ‘F’ replies
Americans can now select their chosen gender on passports without providing medical documentation, according to a new Biden administration rule. As explained by a State Department announcement released on Wednesday: You can now select the gender you would like printed on your U.S. passport, even if the gender you select does not match the gender on your supporting documentation such as a birth certificate, previous passport, or state ID. We no longer require medical certification to change the gender marker on your U.S. passport. To request a new passport with a different gender than the one you have on your current passport, or if you are applying for
In a tweet that didn’t take long to gather massive social media steam, Kirstie Alley, Hollywood’s female braveheart—brave, ‘cause she’s openly conservative—wrote: “People are becoming so ‘open minded’ that” soon enough “they will support pedophilia” as simple shows of love to children.
That ain’t hyperbole.That’s where the left indeed is headed. More from her tweet: “Down the road they will support pediphilia [sic] as people ‘just loving children.’(Snip)“Drag Queen Story Hour is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools and bookstores,” the site states. “DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids
The Biden agenda continued its string of legal defeats on Friday afternoon as a federal judge slapped down the administration’s attempt to block states from making their own tax cuts. The Biden administration’s unconstitutional policy was part of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.“U.S. District Judge Douglas Cole issued the permanent injunction requested by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican who argued the administration was trying to impose a ‘tax mandate’ on states,’ the Washington Times reported.“The Biden administration reached too far, seized too much and got its hand slapped,” Yost said.
Who are the highest-paid people in President Biden's White House? That question was answered on Thursday with the release of an annual report with staffers' salaries, which max out at $180,000.Twenty-two White House employees make the maximum yearly salary. That list includes White House press secretary Jen Psaki, chief of staff Ron Klain and Neera Tanden, who is now senior adviser to the president after her nomination for Office of Management and Budget director was withdrawn.Other familiar names who make the maximum salary include national security adviser Jake Sullivan, senior adviser to the president Cedric Richmond, domestic policy adviser Susan Rice,
Toby Keith’s new song, ‘Happy Birthday,
America,’ will swell your patriotism
but also make you think replies
America,’ will swell your patriotism
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Country music star Toby Keith has released a new single celebrating the birth of America ahead of Independence Day to mark its 245th birthday, though the song will also provoke some thought about where the country is today and where it could be headed.The song, “Happy Birthday, America,” is not Keith’s first patriotic offering: Earlier releases include the smash, “American Soldier,” along with “American Ride,” “Made In America,” and “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (Angry American).”In an interview Friday with “Fox & Friends,” Keith debuted his new single and said he was inspired to write the song last summer during a massive boat parade and fireworks display
Parents objecting to their children being taught that America is a racist country are “beginning to sound a lot like the KKK,” the editors at the Hartford Courant wrote Thursday.The editorial focused on a recent packed school board meeting in Guilford, Connecticut, during which parents and students condemned the teaching of principles associated with Critical Race Theory, a Marxist ideology that embraces the concept that all American institutions are systemically racist, with whites as oppressors and blacks as victims.The Courant editors wrote: How long is it going to be before those saying that white children are being taught to hate their race realize
President Joe Biden on Friday cut off reporters who questioned him about the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying he wanted to focus on the upcoming Fourth of July holiday and 'happy things.''I want to talk about happy things, man,' he told reporters who asked him about the American troops who left Bagram Airbase after almost two decades of war. Biden had come out to brag about Friday's strong jobs report when he was asked about the exit of American troops in the middle of a Taliban resurgence that has sparked fears Afghanistan could descend into civil war. The Taliban claims to have recently captured more than 100 of
President Joe Biden called for extended paths of citizenship on Friday, which could add another 9 million people to the US population, at a naturalization ceremony that took place in the East Room of the White House. There were 21 people who took the citizenship oath at the White House, which was administered by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Mayorkas immigrated from Cuba as a child. They cheered after they became Americans and waved small American flags. Biden used the occasion to call for citizenship for immigrants
The sudden shift in narrative over the possibility that COVID-19 could have emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China, is mysterious and contingent to “just how corrupt our system has become,” according to evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein.
Weinstein, biologist and co-host of the DarkHorse Podcast, has since last year explored the possibility that COVID-19 could have emerged from a laboratory. (Snip)
“My channel was very early on this topic, and it was quite clear to many of us, starting with the tremendous coincidence of this virus having emerged first in Wuhan, where there is a biosafety level four lab studying these very viruses and enhancing them,” said Weinstein.
A federal judge has ruled that a provision in President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill limiting state tax cuts is unconstitutional, handing a victory to Republicans.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost had filed a federal lawsuit against the Treasury Department and its secretary, Janet Yellen, alleging that a provision in the $1.9 trillion Democratic spending package that prohibits states from using relief funds to offset tax cuts or credits “directly or indirectly” is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Douglas Cole issued the permanent injunction against what Yost dubbed the “tax mandate” on Thursday, ruling that the provision exceeds the federal government’s power over states.
“The federal government has to stay in their lane,
On the Siksika Nation reserve, about 95 kilometres east of Calgary, there are two churches about 15 kilometres apart for the 8,000 residents, one Catholic, the other Anglican. In the dark early morning — one on Monday, the second on Tuesday — someone tried to burn them both down.
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It looks like Molotov cocktails of some sort were used, smashing a window and burning the window frame, but failing to spread flames deep inside. “They were both intentionally set, no doubt about that,” said Tom Littlechild, director of emergency services for the Siksika Nation. “But both structures are very intact.”
The same cannot be said of some other churches.
Marvel Comics is celebrating Independence Day by having the iconic hero Captain America tell readers that the American dream “isn’t real.”
The first issue of “The United States of Captain America” by writer Christopher Cantwell sees Steve Rogers, the famous red, white and blue “Avenger,” lament the nation’s “white picket fence fallacy.”(Snip) The character then laments another marketed version of America that doesn’t really exist— one with “white picket fences.” Instead, the character discusses an America that “doesn’t get along nicely with reality. Other cultures. Immigrants. The poor.” “We’re at our best when we keep no one out,” the title character says at one point.
Claire McCaskill starting 'new
family tradition' of re-watching
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family tradition' of re-watching
Capitol riot footage every July 4 replies
MSNBC political analyst and former Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said Friday she and her family will start a new tradition this Independence Day by re-watching footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The Missouri Democrat said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that The New York Times’s new video, “Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol,” will become standard viewing at her family gatherings every July Fourth. “We’re going to start a new family tradition in my family,” Ms. McCaskill said, according to a clip flagged by Grabien Media. “On the Fourth of July and every Fourth of July going forward,
McALLEN Texas – The day after former President Donald Trump’s visit to the region, dozens of Border Patrol-contracted vans and buses carrying recently released migrants arrived at the downtown offices of Catholic Charities Respite Center.
According to a law enforcement source within Customs and Border Protection, more than 5,300 migrants were apprehended on Wednesday nationwide. More than 2,000 of those occurred in the Rio Grande Valley on the same day former President Trump toured the area. Health and Human Services reported 471 unaccompanied migrant children were part of Wednesday’s total.The revolving door at the Catholic Charities Respite Center opened to allow hundreds of migrant families inside .
In a statement, Court Administrator Scott Stewart said the two municipal judges and Clerk of Courts Ted Kalo adopted a policy requiring vaccinations against the virus “Out of concern for the health and safety of the people of our community who are required to attend court proceedings.” (Snip) He said staff members were notified approximately six to eight weeks ago, with a deadline of July 2 to receive or schedule their first dose of a vaccination. In Kalo’s office, he is using vaccination cards as proof. Court employees who refuse vaccinations and are not exempt for medical reasons will be terminated,
An imported woke leftist culture is 'racialising' France, causing splits in society and holding back ethnic minorities, President Emmanuel Macron has claimed. Macron said the political left's insistence on defining their countrymen by their ethnicity and depicting them as victims is causing rifts, and blamed social science ideas that have come from the United States. (Snip) He also pointed blame at feminists and black rights activists for seeking to define people according to their gender and their skin colour, arguing that such views cause rifts in French society and limit social mobility among ethnic minorities. A new generation of younger
Disney World has made another change at its Orlando, Florida, theme park as part of the company's initiative to become more inclusive. Employees were invited to a "cast member" preview of the "Happily Ever After" fireworks show at Magic Kingdom on Wednesday. The event was the first fireworks showing hosted at Disney World since the nightly shows were halted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the fireworks show seemingly remains unchanged, the preshow recording is now different. As heard in videos shared by employees, Disney World has replaced the "Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls" greeting with one
The National Education Association (NEA) adopted a measure designed to thwart the ongoing campaign against so-called "anti-racist" education, which critics have described as a form of neo-racism.
"NEA will research the organizations attacking educators doing anti-racist work and/or use the research already done and put together a list of resources and recommendations for state affiliates, locals, and individual educators to utilize when they are attacked," the measure reads on NEA's website.
A homeless man with over a dozen prior arrests was busted Friday in connection to the stabbing of an Eric Adams campaign volunteer in the Bronx, authorities said Friday. Gary Oliver, 34, was arrested and charged with attempted murder, police said. The 42-year-old staffer was repeatedly stabbed around 2:30 p.m. June 20 near East 149th Street and Morris Avenue in a shocking attack captured on video.(Snip) Sources said at the time that Oliver has 14 prior arrests, and was last busted for robbery in 2020. The victim has been arrested nearly 50 times, public records show.
Dozens of looters moved into Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield just hours after U.S. troops vacated the airfield after a nearly 20-year occupation. The district administrator for the town of Bagram, Darwaish Raufi, told the Associated Press that since the troops' departure was not coordinated with local officials, the airfield's gates were not secured. This allowed looters to unlawfully enter before Afghan forces could secure the airfield. "Unfortunately the Americans left without any coordination with Bagram district officials or the governor's office," Raufi said. "They were stopped and some have been arrested and the rest have been cleared from the base," Raufi
A judge on Thursday ruled in favor of a group that filed a lawsuit demanding more police officers be brought into the city, after City Council members and activist groups advocated to replace the police department following the death of George Floyd.
Hennepin County District Judge Jamie L. Anderson issued a Writ of Mandamus (pdf) ordering the city to hire more police officers, specifically, that Minneapolis should have at least 730 officers or .0017 of the 2020 census population, whichever is higher, by the end of June 2022.
An unprecedented number of officers quit or went on extended medical leave after Floyd’s death and the unrest that followed, which included the burning
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday it would not take up a case over LGBT rights and religious liberty when it comes to same-sex weddings in a dispute brought by a florist. The high court declined to hear Barronelle Stutzman’s case after she lost at the Washington Supreme Court when the state attorney general sued her for not providing flowers from her flower shop, Arlene’s Flowers, for a same-sex wedding. The American Civil Liberties Union also filed a lawsuit against the florist on behalf of the couple.
Washington’s highest court concluded she could be forced to participate in the event despite her First Amendment claim
Legal constitutionalists and political conservatives have had reason to be disappointed at times with the Roberts Court, but today is not one of those days. The Court concluded its 2020-21 term with a pair of 6-3 rulings written by George W. Bush’s appointees (Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito) and joined by all six Republican appointees to the Court. Both reached the right conclusions. Both will advance the progress of the law toward a vibrant space for democracy, by protecting free speech and free and fair elections.
The Veep From ‘Veep’
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President Joe Biden has a problem, and her name is Kamala Harris. The vice president has become a comic figure in today’s Washington—a politician given to missteps and unforced errors who inspires neither loyalty nor trust within her inner circle. She might have been Biden’s safest pick for running mate. But now she’s a liability for both the president and the Democratic Party.It’s not just that Harris is unpopular. Her unique combination of falsity and incompetence generates negative press and endangers her dreams of succeeding Biden. For Harris, the month of June has been an extended replay of highlights from Veep, the HBO comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Three days ago, there was a New York Times opinion piece defending Kamala Harris and the job she was doing. Two days ago, there was a hit piece on her office management skills and her general unpreparedness from POLITICO. I covered both because it looked like something was shaping up behind the scenes.
Right now, Joe Biden doesn’t know if he is running for re-election in 2024. In March, he did say he expects to run, but his public appearances aren’t getting any better, and there is still a lot of whispering going on behind the scenes as to whether or not he will actually be able to.
How much has the liberal media become like North Korean state media?As I previously wrote, one great example (and there are daily examples) was a gag-inducing piece on “Dr. Jill” Biden from Vogue which was so bad it put the North Koreans to shame.(Tweet) It’s so bad, it’s laughable. But they also expect us to bite on this and swallow it.Here are a couple of examples so you can get a good flavor of the piece: Part of what makes the Bidens’ right-out-of-the-gate successes so extraordinary is that they seem to have perfectly read the room: We have been through this enormous, collective trauma, and here’s a calm, experienced,
Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military’s greatest defender. Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. When generals, active or retired, became controversial, conservative America usually could be counted on to stick with them. Flyover country supported marquee officers such as Gen. Michael Hayden, Gen. James Mattis, Gen. Barry McCaffrey, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Gen. David Petraeus and a host of others when the media went after them for alleged unethical conduct, financial improprieties, spats with the Obama administration, or accusations of using undue force or hiding torture.
The Media's Collapsing Trust
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If someone inside the American media elite were tapped to deliver a State of the Media address in front of a distinguished audience, they would not be able to claim that their position is strong, stronger than ever.
Sadly, a new survey by the Reuters Institute found the United States ranks last in media trust — at 29 percent -- among 92,000 news consumers surveyed in 46 countries.
There are several easy answers for why this is true. But the most obvious one is the media's dramatic tilt to one side of the political argument. For many years,
On Kamala Harris, looks like some sort of salvage operation has begun for this Biden administration shipwreck.
That's evident enough in two stories from swamp-beltway media, using named and unnamed sources, both of which say the same thing:
There's Axios:
Top White House officials are mobilizing to defend Vice President Kamala Harris amid a gusher of leaks about dysfunction and infighting in her office.
Driving the news: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told Axios in a statement: "The President's trust and confidence in her is obvious when you see them in the Oval Office together." Biden senior adviser Cedric Richmond said in an interview late Thursday night: "It’s a whisper campaign
During a meeting Thursday near the site of the Florida condo collapse, President Biden took a moment to highlight what he considered to be a silver lining.
“You know what’s good about this?” Biden said during a briefing with Gov. Ron DeSantis and other local leaders. “We’re letting the nation know we can cooperate — and when it’s really important.”
“We’re coming together. This is life and death,” he continued. “I just got back from 12 days in Europe. They wonder whether we can do this. And you’re doing it. I mean, just the simple act of everybody doing whatever needs to be done. You know it really makes a difference.”
Israeli journalists know a thing or two about the click-bait value of stories about the wives of the country’s leaders. (Snip)But even the most blatant cases of this practice in the Hebrew press never reached the low level displayed in the latest issue of Vogue, America’s top fashion magazine. As if the title of its cover story – “A First Lady for All of Us: On the Road with Dr. Jill Biden” – wasn’t sufficiently sycophantic, its accompanying content reads like a parody of a totalitarian regime’s propaganda sheet.
Those observing the current Orwellian climate in the United States no longer gasp at each new move by “progressives” to control society’s
The White House is relishing in the excitement that President Joe Biden’s economic policies saved Americans a whopping $0.16. “Planning a cookout this year? Ketchup on the news. According to the Farm Bureau, the cost of a 4th of July BBQ is down from last year,” the White House tweeted. “It’s a fact you must-hear(d). Hot dog, the Biden economic plan is working. And that’s something we can all relish.” (Tweet/Video) The slideshow attached to the tweet shows how prices for typical cookout foods, such as beef, ice cream and lemonade have allegedly decreased over the year.“The cost of a 4th of July cookout in 2021 is down $0.16
The U.S. Army is upgrading the combat awards for 60 veterans who served in Operation Gothic Serpent in 1993, a battle in Somalia more commonly known as "Blackhawk Down" for its pop culture portrayals. Fifty-eight of the service members who fought in the battle will see their awards upgraded to Silver Stars while the other two will be upgraded to Distinguished Flying Crosses, according to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. "On the afternoon of Oct. 3, [1993] armed militants shot down two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, after which U.S. ground forces converged on the two downed aircraft to recover the personnel," an Army press release read. "The ensuing intense
A one-month-old girl was among 32 people shot Thursday alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.The Chicago Sun-Times notes that four people were killed in the shootings, 28 wounded.ABC 7 described the attack that left the one-month-old in critical condition, noting that it occurred before 8:15 p.m., when three gunmen opened fire on a group of people “in the 6500-block of South Halsted Street.”Seven people were wounded in the incident, including the one-month-old girl, who was shot in the head. She was transported to a hospital in critical condition.An 8-year-old girl was shot in the head in a separate incident and a nine-year-old girl was wounded in another shooting.
Facebook is targeting conservative voices and asking them if they need 'support' after becoming 'extremist' in its latest overreach on free speech and censorship which users say is patronizing and offensive. Several conservative voices like Newsmax TV host John Cardillo, House Delegate Nick Freitas and Alex Berenson shared screenshots of the alerts they received on Twitter. One Canadian user who'd accessed a meme on the page 'Boobs Guns Freedom Beer and Trump 2' got the alert and so did RT journalist Rachel Blevin.
Joe Biden was attempting to show how on the ball he is this week at a briefing on the nation’s wildfire situation. It didn’t work. Biden was meeting with Western governors so he could be seen talking about the annual phenomenon of wildfires and how awful they are and how we must do everything to stop them, even though that just makes future ones worse.
“We know this is becoming a regular cycle,” the president said. [Snip] There is so much so very ignorant about what Joe Biden said. First, wildfire is not becoming a regular cycle. It already is. Has been forever
During an average year, the U.S. Capitol welcomes 2.5 million visitors, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has refused to reopen the Capitol to visitors — school groups, families, or anyone hoping to see the legislative branch in action. To make matters worse, Pelosi’s refusal even to allow visitors on the Capitol grounds resulted in the outdoor concert regularly held on the Capitol’s west front to celebrate our nation’s independence being canceled. What could have been a unifying celebration of our Independence Day and defeat of COVID-19 will instead be virtual performances streamed online.
The Boys Scouts of America has reached a $850billion settlement with more than 60,000 men whose claims of child sex abuse by volunteers and troop leaders span six decades. The settlement was disclosed in a Thursday filing with the US Bankruptcy Court in Delaware—more than a year after the 110-year-old non-profit valued at over $1billion filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors in the face of more than 275 abuse lawsuits and 1,400 potential claims.(Snip) In Thursday's filing, BSA said its proposal has support from representatives for about 60,000 abuse survivors and provides a framework for a global resolution of abuse claims.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Bakersfield Police Department Volunteer Chaplain Angelo Frazier has been speaking to Raquel Urias every day for nearly two weeks since her son Joe Ruiz was shot and killed by police. Ruiz refused to pull over when an officer tried to pull him over on Cottonwood Road on June 13th, police say. The 25-year-old father of two crashed into a car on Cottonwood and East Brundage Lane and then got out of the car. Bakersfield Police say Ruiz had a gun when he and six different officers exchanged fire. Ruiz was taken to Kern Medical with at least 6 gunshot wounds and died three days later. CORRECTIONS*
A Travis County grand jury has indicted an active-duty former Fort Hood Army sergeant on charges of murder, deadly conduct and aggravated assault in the 2020 shooting death of an armed Austin protester.
Perry, who was stationed at Fort Hood, was working for a ride-sharing company and just dropped off a customer when he turned onto a street filled with people protesting police brutality.
He stopped his car, honked, and seconds later, police said Perry drove his car into the crowd, The Texas Tribune reported.
But videos show that he was under attack contradictory to the police reports!
Evanston, IL - A middle school drama teacher is suing Evanston/Skokie School District 65 in federal court for alleged discrimination.
Stacy Deemar, who is white, filed the lawsuit (Snip) "When you have a picture of a white person dressed as a devil, telling the students that whiteness is a bad deal, and telling students that they need to sign away their whiteness, or in the classroom, saying an anti-racist pledge and putting it up on the board to look at every single day, you are telling students that they are either oppressed or the oppressor solely because of their skin color," Herman said.
As Americans prepare to celebrate 245 years of freedom with diffidence and perhaps even mixed feelings, China’s national fete this week marking the Chinese Communist Party’s 100 years of existence showed no such doubt. America faces a serious challenge from China, but seems too self-obsessed and divided to do anything about it.
It’s depressing to compare China’s celebration of a century of communism with our much more muted planned observance.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is weighing a plan to release 100,000 more migrants into the United States interior annually, in addition to the thousands released monthly from DHS custody.
The proposed DHS plan, first reported by Axios, would expand on the Biden administration’s massive Catch and Release operation where border crossers are routinely put into DHS facilities or migrant hotels for a few days before being bused or flown into the U.S. interior.
Did Biden Really Win California?
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The November 3, 2020, Presidential election data from California sets off alarm bells.
Election data generated by the natural voting process will closely match Benford’s Law predictions. (Benford’s Law, or the rule of leading digits, is used as an indicator of fraud in numerical data.) Of course, there can be exceptions, but Benford’s Law points to areas to investigate. (snip) Does the reader believe that the sum of each candidates’ precinct tallies greater than 4,000 votes by mail shows Biden received over 16 times Trump’s votes?
Democrats are demanding that President Joe Biden pack the US Supreme Court with liberal justices after it upheld Republican-backed Arizona voting rules in its final decision of the 2020-2021 term.
Biden expressed his disappointment in the ruling on Thursday and called on Congress to restore fundamental voting rights. [SNIP]
'After all we have been through to deliver the promise of this nation to all Americans, we should be fully enforcing voting rights laws, not weakening them.'
NCAA athletes are wasting little time in capitalizing on new rules allowing them to profit off their name, image, and likeness (NIL), with some high-profile stars expecting to sign six-figure endorsement deals.
Payouts will vary 'client to client, deal to deal' sports attorney Darren Heitner told DailyMail.com, adding that contracts in excess of $100,000 are 'absolutely' expected before the fall sports season starts in late August.
And Heitner isn't guessing. He already represents Florida football player Donovan McMillon as well as twin sisters and Fresno State basketball stars Haley and Hanna Cavinder, who quickly leveraged their 3.3 million TikTok followers into new deals with Boost Mobile and SixStar ProNutrition.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has blasted her critics as sexist and racist - just six weeks after she sparked fury by refusing to be interviewed by white journalists. [SNIP]
Phil Ponce, of WTTW, said, ‘In recent months, there have been questions raised about your temperament and your reaction to criticism – a (Chicago) Tribune editorial used the term irascible – how much of this do you think might have to do with the fact that you’re a woman and specifically a black woman?’
In response, Lightfoot said, ‘99 percent of it.’
Ivory Hecker, an astute and brave local Fox reporter interviewed Dr. Joseph Varon, despite Fox threatening her job if the unedited interview went live. It’s worth listening to in its entirety, but here’s some of what it says.
It’s certainly not the first time Dr. Varon’s been interviewed. He’s talked with the media 1,640 times, including Hecker’s interview. The first 1,639 interviews were edited to exclude specific information about his successes in treating hospitalized COVID patients.
This doctor is certainly no quack. He’s Chief of Staff at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, TX.
Let's go back to the day that President Trump left office and flew to Florida. What if I had written a post titled: "What has to happen for President Trump to run in 2024?"
Let's start with gasoline prices. I would have written that gasoline prices would have to dramatically increase (snip) Let's go to the border. I would have written that President Biden's border decisions would reverse ail the gains made under the Remain in Mexico policy. (snip) I would have written in January President Biden would start showing his age whenever he makes a public statement.
Democrats criticised after yelling
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Furious Democrats have behaved “childishly” by yelling and pounding their desks while Ohio Republican Jena Powell attempted to speak on an amendment to a state bill banning biological males from female sports. Jena Powell attempted to add an amendment to the Ohio NIL bill - the ‘Name.Image, Likeness’ bill - which allows college athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness. Ms Powell’s amendment would see biological males banned from competing in female sports.(Snip) “It’s crucial to preserving women’s rights and the integrity of women’s and girls’ sports,” she said.“Across our country, female athletes are currently losing scholarships, opportunities, medals, education and training opportunities.”
Donald Trump Has One Question for Pelosi
That She Will Refuse to Answer
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That She Will Refuse to Answer
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the resurrection of her January 6 witch hunt in the form of a partisan committee, already having failed at the Senate impeachment trial to prove Donald Trump ‘incited’ rioters at the Capitol.Liz Cheney will be the lone Republican on Nancy Pelosi’s committee. The Wyoming Republican joined the ranks of anti-Trump Democrats by agreeing to be part of Pelosi’s star chamber.“Former President Donald Trump’s top GOP nemesis Liz Cheney will serve on a committee created by House Democrats to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol,” the Washington Examiner reported.
President Joe Biden pushed for Democrat California Rep. Maxine Waters to run for the Senate and told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to 'keep it up' during a series of hot mic moments at a bill signing on Wednesday night.'Senator, I hope. You think I'm kidding, I'm not,' Biden said Wednesday when speaking to Waters about her future during the appearance with Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesus 'Chuy' Garcia.Waters, 82, seemed surprised and then shrugged her shoulders. The Republican National Committee jumped on the comment and slammed Biden for suggesting he wanted the 'far-left, anti-police' Waters
Donald Trump has long claimed that investigations of him are a partisan “witch hunt.” Manhattan DA Cy Vance seems determined to make Trump’s point for him by indicting the Trump Organization along with its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.The 15-count indictment throws a kitchen sink of charges, including grand larceny, conspiracy, scheme to defraud,and tax fraud. But the whole thing comes down to paying perks to Weisselberg — such as his parking garage fees, tuition for family members and reimbursement of holiday gratuities — and not reporting them as taxable income, or reporting that the wrong Trump entity paid them.
Troubling photographs taken by a contractor in the basement garage of the Champlain Towers South condo 36 hours before it collapsed reveal cracked concrete, exposed and severely corroded rebar and pools of water on the floor.
“There was standing water all over the parking garage,” the commercial pool contractor, who snapped the startling images, told the Miami Herald.
The contractor, who asked not to be named, visited the building last week to prepare a bid for cosmetic work on the pool and to provide the cost of new equipment as part of a multimillion-dollar restoration project at the 40-year-old structure, the outlet reported.
The White House social media team set off some fireworks it didn’t want Thursday when it attempted to counter inflation fears by claiming Americans will enjoy cheaper Independence Day parties this year.
“Planning a cookout this year?” the groan-worthy tweet began. “Ketchup on the news. According to the Farm Bureau, the cost of a 4th of July BBQ is down from last year. It’s a fact you must-hear(d). Hot dog, the Biden economic plan is working. And that’s something we can all relish.”
The tweet was accompanied by a GIF laying out the price change for select food items.
“The Star-Spangled Banner” is notoriously difficult to sing, but when it’s done right, chills.
Check out Whitney Houston at the 1991 Super Bowl or (my favorite) Marvin Gaye at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game. “I’ve never been part of an anthem where everybody’s just in unison and lost control and just started moving. It was a beautiful moment,” the superstar hoops player Isiah Thomas recalled later. We have the song to thank for the dear position held in our collective consciousness by the words “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
As with just about everything else in America, though — statues! old movies! math! —
A human rights activist who escaped oppression in North Korea called US Olympian Gwen Berry “spoiled” for turning her back on the American flag — saying she doesn’t know how good she has it.
Yeonmi Park, who defected from the hermit kingdom in 2007, told “Fox & Friends” Thursday that Berry’s decision to snub the Stars and Stripes as the national anthem played is “unthinkable.”
“In North Korea, people who are actually oppressed don’t even know they’re oppressed,” Park told the outlet.
“The fact that she’s complaining about oppression and systemic racism — she does not understand that she’s so privileged.”
New York City voters might not relish seeing mayoral wannabes stuff their faces with hot dogs, but after the way the Board of Elections botched the initial ranked-choice vote counting, maybe it’s not such a bad idea.
With that in mind, the professional eating league that hosts the Nathan’s Famous Coney Island hot dog eating contest joked Thursday that the City Hall hopefuls scarf down wieners and buns on July 4, in a face-off that would determine the Democratic primary’s winner.(Snip) All candidates who have not conceded in the race—Eric Adams, Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley—are invited to a three-minute, all-you-can-eat