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  • Why Rolling Stones Guitarist Brian Jones’ Death Remains A Mystery After More Than 50 Years

    04/27/2024 11:02:28 AM PDT · by DallasBiff
    ati ^ | August 8, 2022 | Erin Kelley
    On July 3, 1969, Brian Jones drowned in his pool and died at just 27, but questions still linger about what really happened at his Cotchford Farm home that night.
  • Rep. Massie warns it could soon be forbidden to criticize Israel

    04/27/2024 10:32:00 AM PDT · by RandFan · 14 replies
    Twitter/X ^ | April 27 | Rep. Thomas Massie
    @RepThomasMassie There’s a bipartisan effort in Congress to equate criticism of the secular state of Israel to violence toward Jewish people in America. The latter is illegal and the former is protected speech, but if a false equivalency is established, it will be forbidden to criticize Israel.
  • Perspective: A New Breed Of RINO

    04/27/2024 9:04:58 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 23 replies
    Northern Public Radio WNIJ ^ | 8/4/20 | Joe Rossner
    RINO, Republican In Name Only, is a slur used against Republicans who fail one or more extreme right wing purity tests. It’s likely Reagan, Goldwater, the Bushes, Eisenhower, John McCain and other Republicans icons would be labeled RINOs by the standards of Trumpism. Here's a new term – PINO. Patriot In Name Only. Examples: If you disrespect 1st Amendment's free press protections and call Journalists “Enemies of the People,” you may be a PINO.
  • WHAT HAS NOW BEEN REVEALED ABOUT THE CORRUPT DOJ & FBI

    04/27/2024 7:41:45 AM PDT · by high info voter · 49 replies
    Truth Social ^ | 4/26/24 | Julie Kelly
    So much proof coming out about our CRIMINAL DOJ & FBI! Revealing the criminal work against President Trump!This is a true BOMBSHELL.
  • ROGUE PROSECUTORS and the RISE OF CRIME

    04/27/2024 6:55:00 AM PDT · by Thank You Rush · 8 replies
    IMPRIMIS ^ | March 2024 | Cully Stimson
    The writers of our Constitution placed their faith not in specific guarantees of rights—those came later—but in a system of checks on government power. Foremost is the separation of powers among the three branches of the federal government, as well as between the federal government and the states. For this system to work as designed, people in each branch of the federal government and in the state governments must do their jobs and stay in their respective lanes. But what happens when district attorneys—members of their states’ executive branches—refuse to execute the laws of the land? We are witnessing the...
  • Trump v. Clinton recusal failures come back to bite ex-White House policy analyst’s bid to boot Biden-appointed judge from Hunter Biden’s ‘hacking’ suit

    04/27/2024 6:50:01 AM PDT · by Libloather · 1 replies
    Law & Crime ^ | 4/27/24 | Matt Naham
    A federal judge on Friday declined to force the recusal of a fellow Joe Biden-appointed colleague in Hunter Biden’s “hacking” lawsuit against a former policy analyst in the Trump White House, writing that the effort failed just like the former president failed to remove a Clinton appointee from the never successful Trump v. Clinton RICO case. U.S. District Judge Hernan Vera was the target of Garrett Ziegler’s recusal motion, which reasoned that Vera’s status as a 2023 appointee of President Joe Biden appointee, coupled with a donation to the president’s 2020 election campaign and the political “subject matter of the...
  • FROM WASHINGTON: Reports from the Army of the Potomac; Twenty-five Millions to Pay the New Short-Term Troops (4/27/1864)

    04/27/2024 6:33:19 AM PDT · by Homer_J_Simpson · 2 replies
    WASHINGTON, Tuesday, April 26. AFFAIRS IN THE ARMY. The latest intelligence from the front to-day left everything quiet there. A heavy reconnoissance into the valley developed the fact that no considerable body of rebels are this side the Rapidan. The belief was general that LEE would not venture an offensive movement. A report prevailed to-day at the front that LEE was removing his heavy artillery to Richmond. REPORTED MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY. The reported advance of the enemy toward Warrenton was caused by the falling back of Gen. GREGG's Division to Three Mile Station for military purposes. There is no...
  • NYU law center will address ‘environmental racism’

    04/27/2024 6:27:09 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    The College Fix ^ | 25 Apr, 2024 | MATT LAMB
    ‘This gift innovatively targets the intersection of two areas of pressing social concern, environmental harm and racial inequity,’ dean says. New York University law students will soon be able to learn how to fight for a “decarbonized future” and against “environmental racism.” The university announced a new Environmental Justice Laboratory will begin this fall. “This gift innovatively targets the intersection of two areas of pressing social concern, environmental harm and racial inequity,” Dean Troy McKenzie stated in a news release. “Environmental justice has been an emerging area of focus here at the Law School and across the country,” McKenzie stated....
  • Five year-old Maryland boy dies from the FLU after infection sparked deadly sepsis

    04/27/2024 6:11:46 AM PDT · by RummyChick · 13 replies
    daily mail ^ | 4/27/2024 | EMILY JOSHU HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
    A Maryland mother who lost her son to sepsis is now fighting for increased protocols in hospitals, as the cruel disease continues to kill one American every 90 seconds. Lochlin DeSantis was just five years old in January 2020 when he came down with the flu. But what is usually a relatively harmless illness turned into a far more sinister disease. Within two days of the onset of his sore throat and fever, he became unable to walk - moving his legs were oddly agonizingly painful. Just a day later, Lochlin started losing consciousness - resulting in a frantic rush...
  • “This is an openly anti-American movement, which is using Israel as the scapegoat”

    04/27/2024 5:42:54 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 36 replies
    Legal Insurrection ^ | 23 Apr, 2024 | William A. Jacobson
    “Academia, particularly at the level of Columbia and the Ivy League, is completely broken. I don’t think it can be repaired internally. They have created over 20 to 30 years a unified monoculture which is hostile to western values, which is hostile to capitalism, and which exploits and singles out Israel as the object of their ire as a mobilizing tactic…. People need to understand that there is no internal opposition left.” There is a plus-side to the vile anti-Israel and antisemitic encampments at Columbia and several other universities – the anti-American side of the movement is on full display....
  • These are the extremist student leaders of the anti-Israel protest camp bringing Columbia to its knees

    04/27/2024 5:37:12 AM PDT · by Libloather · 25 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/26/24 | Georgett Roberts, Katherine Donlevy, Post Staff Report
    The anti-Israel tent encampment at Columbia University is being led by a cohort of controversial student leaders — some of whom express solidarity with Hamas and say “Zionists don’t deserve to live.” These students are the ones negotiating directly with leaders of the Ivy League university — holding campus hostage with dozens of tents and hundreds of protesters splayed out on the lawn in Morningside Heights. One of the most prominent faces in the protest camp is Khymani James, a spokesperson for Columbia United Apartheid Divest, which is demanding that the university divest from any company that does business with...
  • Today's Cryptogram

    04/27/2024 5:33:36 AM PDT · by Lonesome in Massachussets · 14 replies
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  • J.K. Rowling takes victory lap and applauds David Bell, Tavistock Gender Clinic whistleblower

    04/27/2024 5:12:00 AM PDT · by NetAddicted · 10 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | 4/26/2024 | Amy Curtis
    J.K. Rowling should take a bow. She has been a tireless, vocal defender of women and kids against the tidal wave of transgender insanity. We've written about her a lot, because she's always so awesome. And while the woke Left and trans activists screamed at her, threatened her, and harassed her, she held her head high and kept speaking truth to power. So now that she's not-too-subtly taking a victory lap in the wake of the Cass Report, we are applauding her. ‘In years to come we will look back at the damage done to children with incredulity and horror.’...
  • NYC’s squatter scourge is so bad even lefty lawmakers are moving to crack down

    04/27/2024 4:58:53 AM PDT · by Libloather · 8 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/27/24 | Post Editorial Board
    New York’s squatter nightmare has gotten so far out of control that even liberal lawmakers are finally moving to plug the loopholes that have facilitated the crisis. Democratic as well as Republican lawmakers in Albany are pushing measures to crack down on the outrageous scourge, including one bill introduced by lefty Sen. John Liu (D-Queens) that was included in the just-completed state-budget agreement. Liu credited coverage by The Post and others for bringing “to our attention a problem that needed to be addressed.” You bet it needs addressing. Until now, anyone who stayed in a home beyond for a certain...
  • Backfiring in Brussels - Efforts to disrupt the National Conservative Conference may redound to the European Right’s benefit.

    04/27/2024 4:42:29 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 5 replies
    City Journal ^ | 26 Apr, 2024 | Maria-Katrina Cortez
    The National Conservative Conference (“NatCon”) in Brussels received heavy media attention across Europe. The controversial summit gathered the European right-wing elite, from politicians and journalists to academics and clergy. Days before it began, the conference was stoking anticipation with the expected presence of France’s Eric Zemmour, Britain’s Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman, Hungary’s Viktor Orban, and Poland’s Mateusz Morawiecki. Belgium’s Concert Noble, an august ballroom that hosted a NatCon conference two years ago, was to be the site of this year’s event, but the facility cancelled in response to mounting pressure from Philippe Close, socialist mayor of Brussels, and the...
  • Upstate NY DA refuses to stop for speeding, drives back home and calls police chief to complain: video

    04/27/2024 4:35:08 AM PDT · by Libloather · 38 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/26/24 | Patrick Reilly
    An upstate New York district attorney refused to stop for cops when she was caught speeding — and instead drove back her house and called the police chief to complain about the “a–hole” officer who pursued her home, bodycam footage shows. Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley admitted that she was driving 55 mph in a 35 mph zone on Monday on Phillips Road in Webster — less than half a mile from her neighborhood, WHAM reported. “Once I realized that the intention of the [police car] was to pull me over, I called the Webster Police Chief to inform...
  • Lesbian model-turned DEI manager is fired by university for posing in front of Israeli flag emblazoned with swastikas - and is now suing over claims her free speech rights were violated (Minnesota)

    04/27/2024 3:29:34 AM PDT · by Libloather · 43 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 4/27/24 | Martha Williams
    A model-turned DEI manager who was fired because she posed in front of an Israeli flag emblazoned with swastikas is now suing because her First Amendment rights were 'violated'. Mashal Sherzad, 29, was fired from her position as the diversity, equity and inclusion manager at the University of Minnesota because of now seemingly deleted pictures that she accidentally uploaded onto her public social media of her posing in front of the controversial flag. Sherzad, who identified as Muslim, and who is in a relationship with a woman, began her role in October, 2023, and travelled to Barcelona to attend a...
  • Biden roasted for agreeing to debate Trump on Howard Stern: 'His handlers must be furious!'

    04/27/2024 3:01:55 AM PDT · by Libloather · 26 replies
    Fox News ^ | 4/26/24 | Alexander Hall
    Political commentators joked that Biden’s staff is panicking after the gaffe-prone president said he would be "happy" to debate Trump during an interview with Howard Stern Friday. "I don't know if you're going to debate your opponent," Stern said. The president replied, "I am, somewhere, I don’t know when. I'm happy to debate him." Biden's comments represent a shift from past remarks about possibly debating Trump. Last month, he told reporters it would depend "on his behavior." Trump was quick to challenge Biden to debate him, declaring on Truth Social, "Everyone knows he doesn’t really mean it, but in case...
  • Hulking autistic boy, 17, filmed battering female teacher's aide for threatening to take away his Nintendo switch files lawsuit claiming school staff 'triggered' him

    04/27/2024 1:48:19 AM PDT · by Morgana · 39 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | April 26, 2024 | Mackenzie Tatananni
    An autistic Florida teen who knocked a school staffer unconscious for threatening to take away his Nintendo Switch has filed a lawsuit against the district, accusing them of failing to meet his needs. Brendan Depa, 18, was just 17 when he was caught on video pummeling a teacher's aide, Joan Naydich, at Matanzas High School after she requested another teacher take away his gaming console. Depa was arrested and charged as an adult with aggravated battery on a school employee, a first-degree felony carrying a potential sentence of 30 years behind bars. The teen filed a request for due process...
  • Permanent sterilization is rising among young Americans… and it started before Roe fell

    04/27/2024 12:34:26 AM PDT · by Morgana · 22 replies
    Live Action News ^ | April 26, 2024 | Bridget Sielicki
    A recent study released by the University of Pittsburgh and Boston University has found that the number of individuals choosing permanent sterilization methods has continuously risen over the past few years. While the study focused on the sharp rise in sterilization following the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, it also notes that sterilization was already on the rise prior to Dobbs — reinforcing the trend in population decline seen worldwide. Per the report, which was published in the JAMA Health Forum, there was an immediate jump in tubal ligations...