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US: Missouri (News/Activism)

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  • FBI and White House likely coerced social media platforms into removing posts, appeals court rules

    03/18/2024 8:04:24 AM PDT · by george76 · 27 replies
    CNBC ^ | SEP 11 2023 | Lauren Feiner
    the appeals panel agreed that several federal offices and agencies, including the White House .. violated the First Amendment by coercing the platforms’ content moderation decisions. ... A federal appeals court ... finding that several agencies likely violated the First Amendment. ... The original case was brought by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, who alleged that federal officials unduly pressured social media firms to limit speech on their platforms, as they communicated concerns about posts related to the Covid pandemic or elections. ... The decision had an immediate impact. Following the district court’s order in July, the State...
  • Democrat claims that grid reliability issues are caused by white supremacists and climate change

    03/16/2024 4:41:13 AM PDT · by Sam77 · 55 replies
    Just The News ^ | 15 March 2024 | Kevin Killough
    A House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing Tuesday examined threats to the security and reliability of the U.S. electricity grid, which can lead to more blackouts. While reliability assessments regularly find that increased reliance on wind and solar, increased demand from electrification, an underbuilt electrical delivery network, and rapid retirements of on-demand generators are creating an increased risk of blackouts, Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., ranking member of the subcommittee, instead blamed other sources of the problem, namely, white supremacy. She also threw in "climate change" for good measure.
  • Missouri AG wants teen girl who smashed other high schooler’s head into concrete charged as adult

    03/12/2024 5:22:57 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 80 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 11, 2024 | Melissa Koenig
    Missouri’s attorney general wants the teenage girl seen slamming another high schooler’s head into the concrete to be charged as an adult — and hit with homicide charges if the critically injured victim dies. “This evil and complete disregard for human life has no place in Missouri, or anywhere. I am praying for the victim,” state AG Andrew Bailey wrote of the disturbing video. “The criminal should be charged and tried as an adult. If the victim dies, that offense should rise to a homicide,” he stated of the unidentified 15-year-old whose case is being held in juvenile court. “I...
  • Teen girl in critical condition after being beaten by mob, head repeatedly bashed into concrete during brutal fight near Missouri high school

    03/10/2024 1:11:18 PM PDT · by packagingguy · 319 replies
    Post Millennial ^ | March 10, 2024 | Thomas Stevenson and Katie Daviscourt
    A female student from Hazelwood East High School in Missouri is in critical condition after appearing to suffer a serious head injury during a fight with a group of students on Friday. Graphic video shows another female student picking up the girl's head and repeatedly bashing her head into the concrete after throwing multiple punches. The victim's body was left motionless on the ground. The girl on the ground then began to have a seizure as other students were seen gathered around and started fighting one another. The victim, who has been identified as a student named Kailee, was transported...
  • Toyota Workers at Critical Engine Plant Launch UAW Union Drive

    03/09/2024 8:42:21 AM PST · by Salman · 29 replies
    Labor Notes (official union press releases) ^ | March 06, 2024 | Luis Feliz Leon
    Auto workers at a Toyota engine plant in Troy, Missouri, have signed up 30 percent of their 1,000 co-workers to join the United Auto Workers (UAW)—a first at Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, on the heels of the union’s announcements of organizing campaigns at Volkswagen, Hyundai, and Mercedes-Benz. Workers at the plant just outside St. Louis build 2.6 million cylinder heads per year. Should they stop building them, it would cut off supplies for all of the company’s engine plants in North America. Toyota is still working to build up its supply of chips and other inventory, following pandemic lockdowns...
  • Missouri Governor Declines to Give Specifics on Britt Reid's Commutation

    03/08/2024 2:24:39 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 21 replies
    ESPN ^ | Mar 8, 2024 | Xuan Thai
    One week after he commuted the drunken driving sentence of former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson declined to offer specifics about his decision. In a statement to ESPN, the governor's office said, "No request, official or otherwise, was made on behalf of Mr. Reid for this commutation." A spokesperson for the office declined to comment beyond the statement. Reid, the son of Chiefs coach Andy Reid, served 16 months of a three-year sentence after pleading guilty to felony driving while intoxicated resulting in serious physical injury. According to prosecutors, Reid was driving about 84...
  • Missouri bill would require educators to register as sex offenders if they encourage transgender students

    03/05/2024 3:59:34 PM PST · by Salman · 22 replies
    Fox ^ | March 4, 2024 | Jamie Joseph
    A new bill introduced in the Missouri legislature would classify assistance to transgender students under 18 in their "social transition" as a felony, making the legislation the first of its kind in a slew of culture war bills introduced by state Republicans. The bill defines a social transition as "the process by which an individual adopts the name, pronouns, and gender expression, such as clothing or haircuts, that match the individual's gender identity and not the gender assumed by the individual's sex at birth." The Missouri bill, introduced by Republican state Rep. Jamie Gragg, would also require the educators to...
  • VIDEO – Police: Kansas City Man Gives Dollar to Suspects Before Being Shot, Robbed at Gas Station

    03/03/2024 1:20:55 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 19 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/03/2024 | Amy Furr
    Police are searching for a group of suspects accused of targeting a man in a violent incident outside a gas station on February 22 in Kansas City, Missouri. Surveillance video shows a man exit the gas station, located on the 4500 block of Cleveland Ave., just before 11:00 p.m. when three suspects approach him, KMBC reported Friday. Law enforcement said the suspects asked the man for a dollar and the man gave it to them. However, as the man appeared to try and get back into his vehicle, the suspects closed in and one of them allegedly shot the man,...
  • Trump sweeps Republican caucuses today in Michigan, Missouri, and Idaho, winning all the delegates at stake

    03/02/2024 4:36:33 PM PST · by janetjanet998 · 71 replies
    CBS News: Trump sweeps Republican caucuses today in Michigan, Missouri, and Idaho, winning all the delegates at stake.
  • Trump Wins Missouri Republican Caucus

    03/02/2024 10:56:21 AM PST · by CFW · 67 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | 3/2/24 | staff
    KANSAS CITY, Mo.—President Donald Trump won the Missouri Republican presidential primary on March 2, the latest triumph in his undefeated nominating contest streak. The Associated Press called the race for President Trump at 12:40 p.m. ET with just 5 percent of the votes counted. The first voting results out of Missouri’s GOP caucus indicated a likely significant win for former President Donald Trump. Ben Watson caucused for former President Donald Trump because “he gave us a lot better prosperity when he was in office.” “Almost everything (President Trump) did helped America prosper,” Mr. Watson said. “Whereas the current president, everything...
  • Caucus locations for Missouri's GOP presidential primary on March 2

    03/02/2024 4:26:48 AM PST · by cotton1706 · 1 replies
    KSDK-TV ^ | 2/28/24 | Sam Clancy
    This weekend, Missouri Republicans can make their voice heard in the presidential primary process, but it won't be the same way they have in recent races. Missouri lawmakers in 2022 intentionally canceled the state's presidential primary as part of a broader elections bill backed by Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft that also imposed photo identification requirements for voting. Though leaders of the state Republican and Democratic parties both testified in favor of reinstating a presidential primary, lawmakers this year failed to pass legislation doing so, meaning the state's delegates will be allocated through the caucus process. Instead of voting...
  • Missouri GOP boots gubernatorial candidate tied to KKK and pictured throwing Nazi salute in front of a burning cross

    03/01/2024 2:49:41 PM PST · by lowbridge · 37 replies
    nypost.com ^ | March 1, 2024 | Melissa Koenig
    Missouri’s Republican party is trying to boot one of its members from running for governor after finding out he was an honorary member of the Ku Klux Klan — and even pictured throwing Nazi salutes in front of a burning cross. “The Missouri Republican Party has been made aware that Darrell Leon McClanahan III filed for governor as a Republican despite his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan, which fundamentally contradicts our party’s values and platform,” the state party posted on X Thursday. “We have begun the process of having McClanahan removed from the ballot as a Republican candidate. “We...
  • Missouri AG Sues Planned Parenthood for Taking Teens Out of State for Secret Abortions

    02/29/2024 10:47:44 PM PST · by Morgana · 14 replies
    Life News ^ | Leap Day 2024 | Steven Ertelt
    Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey today announced a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood after an expose’ video showed officials discussing how they take teen girls out of state for secret abortions. As LifeNews previously reported, Project Veritas conducted an investigation just before Christmas this past year in which a journalist entered a Kansas City, Mo. clinic asking how to get an abortion for a 13-year-old. The male reporter was met with certainty and confidence from the staff that although the procedure is illegal in Missouri, the minor could be sent to Kansas for the procedure, and no one would need to...
  • Man Who Fatally Ran Over Mom And Daughter Freed On Bail By Soros-Backed Judge

    02/27/2024 7:07:24 PM PST · by george76 · 39 replies
    oann ^ | February 27, 2024 | Abril Elfi
    A man accused of killing a mother and daughter after running them over with his vehicle has been released on bail. ... According to court documents, Monte Henderson, 22, was freed from custody on Friday morning after posting $20,000 of his $200,000 bail. REPORT: The judge who released the Missouri man out on a $20k bond who killed a mother & her daughter, is linked to Soros. Shocker. Judge Annette Llewellyn shockingly decided to let Monte Henderson walk free after he plowed through a woman & her daughter traveling at a whopping… pic.twitter.com/zlVm7KRJRq — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 27, 2024...
  • Kansas City Mayor Suggests Racism After Missouri Governor Called Chiefs Parade Shooters ‘Thugs’

    02/19/2024 6:19:54 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 68 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/19/2024 | AWR HAWKINS
    Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas (D) claims Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) used a racial “dog whistle” when he referred to the Chiefs parade shooting suspects as “thugs.” The New York Post reported that Lucas made this assessment on KCUR’s Up to Date radio program. Parson had reacted to Wednesday’s shooting by saying, “We can’t let some thugs just take over and ruin what happened.” Lucas told KCUR, “I have respect for the governor. We get along well. I disagree strongly with how he would describe that situation. I certainly do think this was criminal activity. It was lawlessness, and...
  • Cornel West calls Obama response to shootings 'weak'

    07/10/2016 8:54:12 PM PDT · by Enchante · 10 replies
    The Hill ^ | July 9, 2016 | Jessie Hellmann
    Activist Cornel West says he was disappointed in President Obama's response to this week's shootings in of black men by police in Minnesota and Louisiana. "I thought it was weak," West said, according to The Washington Post. "He's always got to explain to white America how black people are feeling. Black people don't feel as if we're being treated unequally — it's a fact that we're being treated unequally. He sort of always has to serve in this translating role. That's how he rolls, but that's not how I roll." West said while Obama called Thursday's attacks on Dallas police...
  • Cornel West traces US unrest to Obama failures: 'Black faces in high places' couldn't deliver

    05/29/2020 11:32:44 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 13 replies
    Fox News ^ | May 29 2020 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn
    Harvard philosophy professor Dr. Cornel West weighed in on the ongoing protests in reaction to George Floyd's death in police custody -- and the violence and destruction that have taken place in cities across the U.S. over the past several days. West noted that "black faces in high places" were not able to create needed change because they succumbed to the "capitalist economy" and "militarized nation-state." "The Black Lives Matter movement emerged under a black president, black attorney general, and black homeland security and they couldn't deliver," West said about the Obama administration during a CNN interview Friday night.
  • Cornel West on Obama: "The First Black President Has Become The First Niggerized Black President"

    06/22/2015 7:19:09 PM PDT · by Crystal Palace East · 59 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | June 22, 15
    Reacting to President Obama's use of the n-word on Marc Maron's podcast, (Princeton / Harvard Professor) Cornel West called him the first "niggerized" president in an appearance on CNN. West criticized Obama as "a person who is afraid and intimidated when it comes to putting a spotlight on white supremacy." "Too many black people are niggerized," West said Monday on CNN. "I would say the first black president has become the first niggerized black president." "A niggerized black person is a black person who is afraid and scared and intimidated when it comes to putting a spotlight on white supremacy...
  • Cornel West: ‘Ferguson Signifies the End of the Age of Obama’

    11/26/2014 8:03:35 PM PST · by Nachum · 74 replies
    Mediaite ^ | 11/26/14 | Josh Feldman
    Professor Cornel West appeared on CNN International this afternoon to give his take on Ferguson, and said right at the outset, “Ferguson signifies the end of the age of Obama. It’s a very sad end. We began with tremendous hope and we end with great despair.” He went on to cite a “Jim Crow criminal justice system” that doesn’t seek justice for young black and brown people, and said adamantly there is both a race and a class war going on against that group in America right now. CNNI anchor Hala Gorani asked West why he’s “so harsh” on the
  • Championship parades likely to change in wake of shooting at Chiefs Super Bowl celebration

    02/18/2024 11:22:19 AM PST · by Drew68 · 51 replies
    AP ^ | 02/15/2024 | Jimmy Golen
    BOSTON (AP) — With back-to-back Super Bowl victories for the hometown Chiefs, Kansas City football fans gathered for another championship parade and a second celebratory pep rally in a row. Don’t expect there to be a third. Not because the Chiefs, with star quarterback Patrick Mahomes still just 28 years old, can’t win another NFL title. But even if they do, officials are unlikely to allow so many fans in one place to cheer them on, security experts said in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting just after the rally had ended. “They have to think twice about having these parades,”...