Posts on Friday, April 3, 2026
In a development raising red flags across the Atlantic, Britain’s Labour government has appointed the UK’s first “anti-Muslim hostility tsar” and adopted a new definition of anti-Muslim hostility — reframed from “Islamophobia” — as part of its £4 million social cohesion strategy.
The definition describes such hostility as “a type of racism” targeting “expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness,” including prejudicial stereotyping that could incite hatred.
Officials claim it addresses record-high anti-Muslim hate crimes while protecting free speech. Critics, however, see it as a potential censorship tool that could limit scrutiny of Islamic extremism, grooming gangs, or integration challenges.
NYT bungles NATO meaning as 'North American
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The New York Times was heavily criticized Friday for a glaring error in a headline that clearly misstated the meaning of the acronym "NATO" as the "North American Treaty Organization" instead of the "North Atlantic Treaty Organization."
The news outlet admitted that it was a mistake in a post on social media, stating it would run a correction Saturday.
"A headline with an article on Friday about President Trump’s threats to leave NATO misstated the full name of the body," the outlet said. "It is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not the North American Treaty Organization."
Attorneys in Colorado are claiming that the state's court e-file system is requiring them to certify they won’t share personal information to assist ICE or federal immigration enforcement. Multiple attorneys on X reported an electronic notification citing the Protect Civil Rights Immigration Status Act, a state law passed in 2025 that prohibits collection or disclosure of information pertaining to immigration status in health care, education and government.
Covenant Law founder Ian Speir posted screenshots of an alleged electronic form that he was required to accept to access Colorado’s court filing system. The page in question is not public-facing and appeared to be only accessible by attorneys registered in Colorado,
President Donald Trump on Friday proposed to begin privatizing airport security operations handled by the Transportation Security Administration, in an effort to save money.
The White House budget proposes cutting funding for the federal agency created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by $52 million and would require small airports to enroll in a program in which TSA pays for private screeners.
TSA has about 50,000 federal employees who handle screening at nearly all U.S. airports. Budget documents released on Friday said airports currently using the privatization program have demonstrated savings compared to federal screening operations.
In recent weeks, major U.S. airports suffered massive disruptions after TSA security officers went unpaid since mid-February
Former Vice President Kamala Harris warned that President Donald Trump must not be allowed to pick two “additional justices” for the Supreme Court, adding that Democrats “must be clear-eyed about what is at stake.”
In a post on X, Harris — who lost the 2024 Presidential election against Trump, shared an article from the New York Times about how a “liberal organization” was “preparing a multimillion–dollar effort to oppose potential Trump Supreme Court appointees before they happen.”
The New York Times reported that Josh Orton, who serves as “the president of Demand Justice,” predicted that “the project would cost $3 million to start and $15 million more if vacancies occurred”:
Duckworth demands TSA return to flight
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passengers having to remove shoes at airport
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Illinois Democrat Sen. Tammy Duckworth sent a letter to the Transportation Security Administration on Friday demanding the agency rescind its "shoes-on" policy, according to a report.
In a letter obtained by CBS News, Duckworth called the policy a "reckless act" that may be placing flight passengers at risk.
Duckworth also warned that the policy was likely implemented "without meaningful consultation with TSA," citing an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general that found it created a new security vulnerability in airport screening systems.
The IG's classified report found that TSA scanners are unable to effectively screen shoes, raising concerns that threat items could evade detection. The report was allegedly buried
If one is an accident and two is a trend, what does that make seven?
In a segment that aired on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show,” host Will Cain called attention to seven high-profile scientists and others with connections to sensitive government research who recently have turned up missing or dead.
Then, near the end of the segment, Cain highlighted the “overlap” between those seven cases. "There’s a story that caught our attention,” Cain said in a clip posted to the social media platform X. “We’re talking about a number of U.S. scientists — some connected to very sensitive research — who have died or disappeared. Let’s break down what
The City of Houston faced backlash for a social media post that referred to Good Friday and Easter Sunday as “Spring holiday weekend” that went viral.
The post signaled to constituents that offices would be closed on April 3, but did not address the Christian holiday. The city’s post on Instagram remains live as of publication but appears to be deleted on X. Roughly 67% of adults living in the broader Houston metro area say they are Christians, according to a Pew Research Center poll. “Due to the Spring holiday weekend, City of Houston offices will be closed on Friday, April 3,
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If you think Gavin Newsom is obnoxious, get a load of his wife. She took her children on a tour of red states so they could witness racism, misogyny and bullying first-hand. Because those things don’t exist in California but are pervasive in Red America: (X) And isn’t that the hideous Jen Psaki, former White House Press Secretary, nodding along?
The arrogance of these people is of course appalling, but to me, the stupidity is even worse. People of all races are fleeing blue states like California and flocking to red states like Texas and Florida. It isn’t because they love racism and sexism, it is because life is better
CBS News is the Titanic of broadcast news organizations. It's a century old, spans the globe, airs something like a dozen programs, and employs more than 10,000 — the most powerful all cut from the same ideological mold.
Steering that hulk away from the iceberg is no easy feat, but it's the assignment given to new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss by parent-company Paramount CEO David Ellison.
Weiss has been at the helm for less than a year, so I've been more than willing to cut her plenty of slack as she tries to steer the massive ship more toward the center. Results so far are mixed — and she was never going
A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II was downed near the Strait of Hormuz on April 3, while participating in rescue operations for the crew of an F-15E Strike Eagle shot down over Iran the same day, according to multiple US officials cited by CBS News and The New York Times. The A-10 was reportedly struck during combat operations tied to the conflict with Iran. The pilot ejected over the Persian Gulf and was subsequently rescued. The incident occurred as US forces launched a search-and-rescue mission for the two-person crew of the downed F-15E. One crew member from the F-15E was recovered, while the search for the second continued
A pair of Chinese-American siblings is accused of planting an improvised explosive device (IED) at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. The siblings, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have revealed, are the now adult “anchor babies” of Chinese illegal aliens who were rewarded birthright citizenship for their two children after their mother delivered them in the United States.
Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) brought charges against 20-year-old Alen Zheng and 27-year-old Ann Mary Zheng after they allegedly orchestrated an attack on MacDill Air Force Base, including planting an IED on the premises.
A power outage impacted Target Field at about 1:50 p.m. on Friday, leaving the entire stadium and surrounding buildings in the dark on the day of the Minnesota Twins home opener. (snip) An outage map from Xcel Energy states that power is expected to be restored at 3:15 p.m. The first pitch was scheduled for 3:10 p.m.
The elephant in the room grows bigger after a look at the latest violent crime statistics: blacks are the greatest perpetrators, and the greatest victims, of criminal violence. First, let’s look at a new stat, from AFPost on X:
That means just 285 suspected shooters were white, while a whopping 18,715 were non-white. When we cross-reference that data with numbers from the city, we see more of the whole picture. The latest report from the NYPD is from 2024, with a few brief and relevant points below:
66.8% of the shooting victims and 64.5% of the shooting suspects are black, despite blacks actually being less of the population
I have just finished two books that very nicely recount America’s first foreign war in the first decade of the 1800s, following its independence from Great Britain. The war was President Thomas Jefferson’s effort to stop the piracy of American ships by the three Islamic nations on the north coast of Africa — Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli (now in Libya) — then called the Barbary coast. When the ruler of Tripoli declared war against the U.S., Jefferson was glad to oblige.
One crew member has been rescued and the search continues for the second pilot after a U.S. F-15 fighter jet was shot down over Iran, according to reports.
The crew member was rescued by US forces, two US officials have told CBS News. Two sources tell CNN that the rescued pilot is alive and receiving medical attention.
Officials say one of the airmen of the F-15E Strike Eagle was ejected before the aircraft went down. U.S. officials are racing to recover the second pilot before Iranian forces can reach them. Israel is helping the United States
(snip) Iranian news anchor has urged residents to hand over any “enemy pilot”
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) has released the March employment report [DATA HERE] reflecting gains of 186,000 private sector jobs, with another 8,000 federal government jobs eliminated. Net gain 178,000 jobs.
Forecasters had anticipated around 63,000 net jobs gained: the actual result triples expectations.[BLS Report – Table B]
This is a challenging time to use data to estimate overall employment strength, mainly due to the repatriation efforts underway that are removing illegal alien workers from the labor force.
As deportation efforts continue against the black-market workforce, in combination with targeting efforts toward fraudulent ‘mismatched’ social security records used to gain unlawful -albeit visible- market employment, it becomes challenging to quantify
Two years ago, career criminal Guy Rivera shot and killed NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller on a street in Queens while he was doing the job this city asked him to do.
He was 31 years old. A husband. A father. A police officer who understood what the work required of him and accepted it.
On that night, he stepped forward into danger with the same sense of purpose and nobility that defined his career. This week, a jury returned its verdict. And that not guilty verdict of murder in the first degree landed like a gut punch to the entire New York City Police Department.
Iran shot down a United States fighter jet over central Iran in the first instance of a US aircraft being downed by enemy fire, a source with knowledge of the incident confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Friday.
The source additionally confirmed that search and rescue operations are underway to locate the two US pilots present on the jet.
As thousands of Oracle employees awoke on Tuesday to an email informing them they were being laid off, the workers likely didn’t know the tech company had been busy trying to hire foreign staff.
According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data, Oracle filed for roughly 3,126 petitions to employ H-1B workers in fiscal years 2025 and 2026. Employers must submit the paperwork when seeking to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations like technology. Some 436 of those petitions were filed this year alone.
Amazon, which in January said it would axe 16,000 corporate employees, has filed for some 2,675 H-1B petitions during the same two-year fiscal period.
The U.S. labor market bounced back in March, with job creation much stronger than expected though the broader picture of a slow-growth labor market held intact.
Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 178,000 during the month, a reversal from the 133,000 decline in February and better than the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 59,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. February’s number was revised down by 41,000 while January was revised up by 34,000 to 160,000, putting the three-month average around 68,000.
It’s easy enough to dismiss Sen. Bernie Sanders’ endless lament that the rich don’t “pay their fair share of taxes,” but he should still be held to account when he flat-out lies about how much the rich do pay.
In an op-ed published by the Guardian, Sanders repeats a number of leftist tropes: income inequality has never been greater, the Trump tax cuts benefited the rich and big corporations, the middle class is getting screwed. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
But then he starts making some remarkable claims.
He says that Warren Buffett’s tax rate is 0.1%, “while the average
Brazil reasserts itself as global censorship
threat with Stanford's help, House Judiciary
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threat with Stanford's help, House Judiciary
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As the U.K., Europe and Australia draw international alarm for seeking to censor online content far outside their borders, House Judiciary Committee Republicans are pointing the finger back at the Western Hemisphere for threats to Americans' speech.
Brazilian officials led by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes "regularly issue global takedown orders to social media platforms demanding the platforms remove content, including specific social media accounts, or face daily noncompliance fines," frequently targeting criticism of its high court, according to "nonpublic documents" the committee obtained.
They even ordered X to remove posts praising President Trump and criticizing —
Singham uses extensive CCP-aligned network
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in China as he finances global Marxist
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Just the News investigation has detailed how a wealthy Marxist activist best known for the funding of a global financial network both inside the U.S. and around the world has extensive ties to Chinese Communist Party-linked organizations inside of China.
China-based entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham lives and works in Shanghai, — which the American businessman now calls home — where he runs his network of pro-CCP news sites and other China-linked endeavors. Singham, who sold his ThoughtWorks tech company in 2017, has used the money to fund openly communist endeavors worldwide.
From farms to the White House: Trump’s
USDA highlights farmer and MAHA ahead
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USDA highlights farmer and MAHA ahead
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This week about 30,000 eggs from a North Carolina family farm arrived in Washington, destined for the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn. The farm-to-table concept is an important tenet of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, expanding exposure to healthy eating habits and nutrition.
The eggs, supplied by Braswell Family Farms in Nashville for the fifth consecutive year, were highlighted by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who visited the fourth-generation operation earlier in the week to tour its laying hen flocks, grading facilities and processing plant.
When the NFA was sold to the American public, it was defended not as an infringement of the Second Amendment, but as an action stemming from the federal government's taxation authority in the Constitution. It wasn't gun control, just a tax. The registry itself was simply a listing of everyone who had paid the tax. Easy peasy lemon squeezey.
With President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, the tax on short-barreled long guns and suppressors came to an end. However, the DOJ says it should keep the registry.
To say it's being challenged is an understatement, and the groups fighting this just filed an amicus brief in the challenge.
The Supreme Court, trying to preserve the Constitution’s purity, might destroy it over birthright Citizenship. Will Cain said that “320K babies were born in 2023 to unauthorized or temporary immigrant mothers; that’s 9% of ALL U.S. births!” He added that the Court had better do the right thing.
Don’t count on it, Will. The Supreme Court justices didn’t seem to be moved by the oral arguments. Turley said it will have to be dealt with a constitutional amendment. However, he doesn’t know if the people have “the political will to wage that war, wage that fight.”
No one believes that the framers would have embraced what we have today.
“We have become
It’s going to be very easy to buy Easter Eggs this year, thanks to President Trump. Egg prices are down by a staggering 80 percent.
Remember when Trump had been reelected president for about ten minutes and Democrats started hassling him about the price of eggs, which had skyrocketed on Joe Biden’s watch? That was fun. Where are they now?
Given all of the things Democrats have been outraged about since then, it seems like ancient history. This year’s Easter egg hunts may be a bit more fun and a lot less pricey.
After getting shellacked by last year’s surge in egg prices, families heading into Easter this spring —
Don't look now, but FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and Jim Acosta agree on something: President Donald Trump is "winning" his effort to reshape the media landscape in his second term. Appearing on the "Power Lines" podcast with his fellow ardent leftists Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino, Acosta glumly proclaimed, "I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out that Donald Trump is winning in his, you know, quest to reshape the media in this country that he's cracked the code on how to hurt the press in the U.S."
Acosta recently testified at a Democrat pseudo-hearing before Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.),
A few days ago, according to a leaked exchange, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told an Iranian military counterpart that their nation’s economy will face collapse in three more weeks without an immediate cease-fire.
He’s not wrong.
Conventional wisdom holds that an air campaign alone cannot trigger a popular uprising, so the combined US-Israel effort in Operation Epic Fury won’t result in meaningful regime change.
But that fails to recognize there’s a second front in this conflict: economic warfare.
And on that front, Iran has already lost.
President Trump’s goal in his first term was to resolve the Iran issue through primarily economic means.
Even the Reds are seeing red.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has succeeded in at least one thing during his fresh-faced administration — infuriating everyone, including his typically ride-or-die lefty buds, over his bald-faced lie that the City Council’s budget plan cuts services.
Peeved City Council members roundly ripped Mamdani after he used one of his slick social-media videos Wednesday to call out Speaker Julie Menin by name and wrongly portray her budget proposal — an alternative to his doomsday version — as slashing billions of dollars from city agencies.
The Gulf countries were trying to advance a resolution drafted by Bahrain in the United Nations Security Council that would allow the use of force to defend their shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The resolution: Now that would seem simple, and primarily defensive, to be able to protect yourself and get through But the effort was effectively stymied on Thursday by three countries. You could probably guess two of them - Russia and China. But the third was ridiculous: France. They opposed any authorization of military action or use of force, according to a diplomat and a senior U.N. official..
The Catholic News Herald, “Connecting Catholics in North Carolina”, bragged that the refugee case coordinator for the Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte, had been recently honored.
His name? Ashir Haji-Mohamed. The latter part of the name meant that he had made a pilgrimage to the Islamic holy city of Mecca.
Haji-Mohamed, a former Somali refugee, had previously been in the news for helping resettle Syrian Muslims, as well as Jordanians and Turks, in North Carolina. After the Biden retreat, Catholic Charities of Charlotte had also worked to bring Afghans to North Carolina.
The Islamic Center of Asheville doubled in size as Catholic Charities dispatched Afghans there, and then working with “a Catholic
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has overturned the controversial rule banning firearms from military installations.
Up until now, it was nearly impossible for servicemen to obtain permission to carry personal firearms on military posts and bases. That is about the change. “Not all enemies are foreign, nor are they all outside our borders,” said Hegseth in an April 2 video. “Some are domestic. Confirming your God-given right to self protection is what I'm signing into action today. And I'm proud to do so.”
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D.) and other local authorities are under fire over a recent string of very high profile and preventable crimes committed by illegal aliens in the sanctuary state.
One of Spanberger’s first actions as governor was to sign an executive order barring state and local authorities from cooperating with federal authorities for federal immigration enforcement. Since then, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has pleaded with Spanberger and Fairfax County officials to stop releasing dangerous criminals back into the community without notifying ICE.
In the past few weeks,
Over at the New Statesman, a long hagiography of Ed Miliband blows a great deal of smoke on behalf of the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. According to Will Lloyd, to some acclaim from both sides of the climate policy debate, Miliband has become “the most powerful man in Government” and may even have been so during the 14 years of Conservative Party rule. Many words marshal some evidence towards Lloyd’s conclusion, but I believe that Lloyd makes far too much of Miliband’s meagre talents.
Miliband is at once both a product of the crony-ridden technocratic bureaucracies that bloomed under the dark of Blair’s term,
Left-wing outlet The Guardian pushed a shaky narrative suggesting that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard could be on the chopping block.
But the White House wasted no time obliterating the report, calling it fake news.
According to The Guardian, Trump had allegedly been “considering” whether to fire Gabbard, citing anonymous sources who claimed the president was frustrated over her handling of former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent, who resigned after criticizing the administration’s rationale for confronting Iran.
White House spokesman Steven Cheung issued a blistering statement to the press, setting the record straight:
California Governor Gavin Newsom has reportedly spent upwards of $20 million on a consulting firm that was going to search for ways to cut government waste.
You could not make this up. This is the most Democrat government story ever.
Newsom could have just looked at his state on his own and picked out expensive programs that aren’t working and recommended that they be cut himself, but then he would have to own those decisions. Democrat base voters would then be likely to come after him for this and hold him accountable.
By burying this under a big expensive consulting firm, he can evade responsibility.
One month into Operation Epic Fury against the Islamic Republic of Iran, a long-overdue conversation has finally broken into the open: What, exactly, is the enduring rationale for NATO? For decades, this question has been treated in Washington foreign policy circles as heretical. But it isn't. And to their credit, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are now saying so plainly. As Trump recently put it, "They haven't been friends when we needed them. We've never asked them for much. ... It's a one-way street." Rubio has been similarly blunt:
Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Merrwysq felt that kombucha was the gateway drug to quoting Sartre in service elevators. It's a pretty safe bet to assume that most politicians are more self-involved than they are self-aware. Perhaps it wasn't always that way, but we know what we're dealing with here in the modern era. There are varying degrees of lack of self-awareness among politicians and few in history have been more clueless than the woman who recently spent four years being one heartbeat away from the presidency, Kamala Harris.
FBI makes multiple arrests Thursday in
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The FBI made multiple arrests Thursday in Los Angeles County in connection with allegations over a total of $60 million in hospice-related Medicaid fraud.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced the arrests for Operation Never Say Die during a news conference.
"Federal agents from multiple agencies descended on fraudsters throughout Southern California, executing multiple arrests and search warrants," Essayli told reporters.
Eight people were arrested, Essayli said, and charges will be brought against 15 individuals who are accused of defrauding $60 million in health care fraud in greater Los Angeles County, including allegedly operating fraudulent hospice care businesses.
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Wednesday on the “Politicon” podcast Democratic strategist James Carville predicted President Donald Trump will get impeached in 2027.
Carville said, “You know who’s gonna turn on you? What’s left of the Republican senators. There may be 43 to 45 of them left. Now the House is gonna vote to impeach you. You’re gonna be impeached in 2027. These senators can’t stand you. These Republican senators, they can’t stand you. They have to be there because of their politics, back in their states, but it’s gonna be apparent to them that you’re a loser. You’re a losing * bet. You’re going to see all this come around
Every day I see a headline like these: from The Hill newspaper this morning,
Trump approval rating hits new low as Iran war squeezes economy.
“New low.” The Hill headline from yesterday read,
Trump losing support from core supporters as approval drops to record low in new polling.
“Record low.” The Tuesday headline in The Hill reads,
Nate Silver on recent polling: Trump has ‘profound problems’
On Monday, The Hill told us,
Donald Trump approval rating dipped to a new low.
James Carville is not exactly known for measured political commentary, but his recent rant on the Politics War Room podcast took things to a whole new level. The famed Democratic strategist unleashed a profanity-laced tirade directed at Donald Trump, and buried inside all the bluster was something genuinely revealing: a detailed roadmap for how Democrats plan to weaponize the federal government against Trump and his family the moment they return to power.
"Listen to me, Trump, I'm gonna tell your fat * *something," he said. "You're getting ready to get the living crap kicked out of you."
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has overturned the controversial rule banning firearms from military installations.
Up until now, it was nearly impossible for servicemen to obtain permission to carry personal firearms on military posts and bases. That is about the change. “Not all enemies are foreign, nor are they all outside our borders,” said Hegseth in an April 2 video. “Some are domestic. Confirming your God-given right to self protection is what I'm signing into action today. And I'm proud to do so.”
A month ago, CNN reported that suspicious activity had been detected on an FBI surveillance network.
The FBI has identified a suspected cybersecurity incident on a sensitive network used to manage wiretaps and intelligence surveillance warrants, and officials are working to determine the seriousness of the incident, according to an FBI statement and a source familiar with the investigation.
“The FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and we have leveraged all technical capabilities to respond,” the bureau said in a statement to CNN on Thursday, declining to elaborate.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is likely to hold a vote or vote on a resolution on the Strait of Hormuz as early as Friday, April 3.
"The proposed resolution will authorize member states to use "all necessary and appropriate means of defense in the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters, including in the territorial waters of coastal states within or bordering the Strait of Hormuz," said Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani on Thursday, quoted by Antara via Sputnik-RIA Novosti.
According to him, the effort is to secure transit routes and prevent attempts to close, block, or disrupt international navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.
DENVER — The Colorado Appeals Court issued a decision Thursday morning that threw out the current prison sentence of Tina Peters, but affirmed her conviction on several felony charges.[snip] The state appeals court heard arguments in the case in January. They issued their decision Thursday morning and said that her sentence should be set aside because it was based, in part, on improper consideration of her right to exercise free speech. Her case will be sent back to the trial court for resentencing. With no changes to her original sentence, Peters would have been parole eligible in early 2028.