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  • ***LIVE THREAD*** RESULTS: 2024 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES IN ARIZONA, FLORIDA, ILLINOIS, KANSAS, AND OHIO – 3/19/24

    03/19/2024 1:46:24 AM PDT · by stars & stripes forever
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  • Connecticut elections chief calls for reforms after ballot stuffing scandal

    03/18/2024 10:40:46 PM PDT · by CFW · 12 replies
    The Center Square ^ | 3/18/24 | Christian Wade |
    (The Center Square) — Connecticut's top election official is calling for reforms in the wake of a ballot stuffing scandal in Bridgeport's mayoral race, where some people were allegedly paid cash to fill out mail ballots. Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas said her office had referred allegations about election "malfeasance" in the February redo of the mayoral race to the State Elections Enforcement Commission to investigate, including reports from voters who received absentee ballots despite not requesting them. “When alerted, the Secretary of the State’s Office is required to send allegations of election malfeasance to SEEC for their review and...
  • Election Integrity Attorney Arrested After Revealing Sensitive Emails by Dominion Voting Systems

    03/18/2024 10:34:32 PM PDT · by CFW · 29 replies
    Politics Brief ^ | 3/19/24 | staff
    Stefanie Lambert, an election integrity attorney who has pressed for transparency in regards to Dominion Voting Systems, was suddenly arrested in Washington D.C. on Monday night. Lambert was reportedly arrested by U.S. Marshals for disclosing allegedly confidential emails from Dominion Voting Systems in a Michigan court case. The Associated Press reported on Lambert’s arrest: An attorney facing criminal charges for illegally accessing Michigan voting machines after the 2020 election was arrested Monday after a hearing in a separate case in federal court in Washington, D.C. Stefanie Lambert was arrested by U.S. Marshals after a hearing over possible sanctions against her...
  • Are More Migrants Being Arrested for Murder?

    03/18/2024 10:24:00 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 5 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Mar 18, 2024 | Nick Mordowanec
    Rates of homicides committed by illegal migrants in the United States have increased overall during the Biden administration, though rates at this point in the fiscal year are about average compared with past years dating to 2021. The hot-button issue of illegal immigration is encompassing the nation and has galvanized Republicans who have consistently kept the topic front and center leading up to November elections. President Joe Biden has allowed an influx of illegal migrants on his watch, most recently drawing condemnation for the February killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley allegedly committed by illegal migrant Jose Ibarra.
  • Supreme Court chief justice denies ex-Trump aide Peter Navarro's bid to stave off prison sentence

    03/18/2024 9:13:00 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 19 replies
    AP ^ | March 17, 2024 | LINDSAY WHITEHURST
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to halt a prison sentence for former Trump White House official Peter Navarro as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. Navarro is due to report Tuesday to a federal prison for a four-month sentence, after being found guilty of misdemeanor charges for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He had asked to stay free while he appealed his conviction. Navarro has maintained that he couldn’t cooperate with the committee because former President Donald Trump had invoked executive privilege. Lower...
  • Chinese Auto Executive: ‘Bloodbath’ Coming for American Auto Industry

    03/18/2024 8:12:42 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 32 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 18 Mar 2024 | John Binder
    He Xiaopeng, the CEO of XPeng Motors, predicts a “bloodbath” against America’s auto industry with the help of cheap China-made electric vehicles (EVs).Over the weekend, former President Donald Trump was campaigning in Andalia, Ohio, when he warned that without fierce new United States tariffs on China-made EVs, the American auto industry will face “a bloodbath for the country” with jobs lost and industry offshored.“We’re going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the line and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected,” Trump said. “Now if I...
  • NY Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, 56, refuses to address romance with lobbyist, 32: ‘My life will never be in conflict’

    03/18/2024 7:27:24 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 17 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 18, 2024 | Vaughn Golden
    State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has reportedly been canoodling with a lovely lobbyist, and it’s all the talk in Albany — but he is refusing to comment on her and scoffs at the notion of a conflict of interest. The 56-year-old powerful Dem has been in a romantic relationship with 32-year-old Rebecca Lamorte, a lobbyist and communications coordinator for the union Greater New York Laborers-Employers Cooperation & Education Trust, or LECET, since at least November, according to the outlet NY Focus. Heastie got feisty with reporters when asked about the couple Monday morning, bristling at the suggestion he should discuss...
  • IDF raids Gaza’s Shifa Hospital again, kills 40 gunmen including senior commander

    03/18/2024 7:11:16 PM PDT · by Uncle Miltie · 19 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 3/18/24 | Emanuel Fabian
    Soldier killed during operation; military says it had ‘concrete intelligence’ terror operatives regrouped in Strip’s largest medical center; 200 suspects captured The Israel Defense Forces early Monday morning launched a raid on Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, amid intelligence that senior Hamas officials were in the area and using the hospital to plan and carry out terror activity, the military said. During the operation troops killed a senior Hamas commander, according to the IDF. One Israeli soldier was also killed amid a gun battle with terror operatives in the area of the hospital before dawn. The raid was launched at around...
  • Trump attorneys file to disqualify Fani Willis from election fraud case despite prosecutor stepping aside

    03/18/2024 6:56:20 PM PDT · by bitt · 8 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | 3/18/2024 | Social Links forRonny Reyes
    Former President Donald Trump’s defense team filed a motion on Monday seeking to dismiss and disqualify embattled Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis from the Georgia election fraud case. Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead attorney in the case, asked the court to immediately remove Willis. The filing comes days after the judge overseeing the case ruled she could stay on as long as special prosecutor Nathan Wade stepped aside, following the revelation of their romantic relationship. Sadow claims in his motion that action does not go far enough and is asking to appeal the decision. “President Trump and seven defendants have...
  • A small city in Oklahoma elected a white nationalist. Will it be able to vote him out?

    03/18/2024 5:16:43 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 45 replies
    NBC News ^ | 03 14 2024 | Brandy Zadrozny
    The photo of Judd Blevins was unmistakable. In it, Blevins, bearded and heavyset, held a tiki torch on the University of Virginia campus, on the eve of Unite the Right, a 2017 coming-together of the nation’s neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups. Connie Vickers had found the photo online along with others showing Blevins marching alongside an angry mob — a crowd of men recorded throughout the night spitting and shouting “Jews will not replace us!” Vickers had it enlarged at a local print and copy shop. On a January night in 2023, she and Nancy Presnall, best friends, retirees and...
  • Netanyahu to Biden: I'm Taking Rafah, Destroying Hamas, And You Can’t Do Anything About It, Old Man

    03/18/2024 6:39:33 PM PDT · by lightman · 26 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | 18 March A.D. 2024 | Matt Vespa
    Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) should’ve kept his mouth shut regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and new elections, an old ploy from the Obama administration. Joe Biden can join him, doling out unreasonable and laughable rules of engagement on Israeli forces. What I love about Netanyahu is that he told Biden and the American Left to shove it. They’re going to move into Rafah soon and destroy Hamas, and there’s nothing weak, old Biden can do about it. Biden is also the reigning world heavyweight champion in being wrong on foreign policy matters. He’s held that title for 40-plus years...
  • Trump: Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion

    03/18/2024 4:46:21 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 32 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 18/3/24
    Former US President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at the Democratic Party and at Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats. In an interview with Sebastian Gorka on his radio show, Trump said, “The Democrat Party hates Israel…they also see a lot of votes. Don't forget, when you see those Palestinian marches, even I am amazed at how many people are in those marches. And guys like Schumer see that and to him it’s votes. I think it's votes more than anything else because he was always pro-Israel. He's very anti-Israel now.” Trump then said, “Any Jewish person that votes...
  • Elon Musk says Google ‘interferes to help Democrats thousands of times every election season’

    03/18/2024 4:45:53 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 5 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 18, 2024 | Ariel Zilber
    Billionaire X owner Elon Musk said Google “interferes to help Democrats thousands of times every election season” after The Post detailed a watchdog group’s claims that the search giant allegedly boosts Dems while censoring Republicans. As The Post reported, a right-leaning watchdog called the Media Research Center (MRC) published a analysis detailing what it described as 41 alleged instances of “election interference” at the online search giant since 2008. Musk quote-tweeted a screenshot of the article and asserted that it “understates the magnitude of the problem.” “Google interferes to help Democrats thousands of times every election season!” Musk wrote on...
  • ‘We’re So Sick of It’: Northern Border Crisis Gets Worse

    03/18/2024 4:33:21 PM PDT · by george76 · 22 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | March 17, 2024 | Allan Stein
    Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the northern U.S. border have jumped from 916 in fiscal year 2021 to 10,021 in fiscal 2023.. HIGHGATE, Vt.—At dawn or dusk, Kristy Brow used to enjoy alone time walking in the woods on her 21-acre property in Highgate, Vermont, a small rural town near the U.S.–Canada border. Lately, however, she’s cautious—she’s worried about potential encounters with illegal immigrants along the remote logging trail. “I don’t go out by myself anymore—especially at night,” said Mrs. Brow, who runs a dog obedience business from her home. “It’s unsettling. You can’t feel relaxed anymore,” she...
  • Trump, co-defendants request to appeal Georgia judge’s ruling keeping Fani Willis on case

    03/18/2024 3:45:23 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 8 replies
    Fox News ^ | March 18, 2024 5:18pm EDT | Brooke Singman
    Former President Trump and several of his co-defendants are asking Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee for permission to appeal after he ruled against dismissing the case and disqualifying District Attorney Fani Willis. McAfee last week denied a full dismissal of the case against Trump and Willis’ disqualification. Instead, he demanded that Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade resign from the case. McAfee warned that without Wade’s withdrawal, Willis would be disqualified from prosecuting Trump. Wade withdrew within hours of the judge's order.Four co-defendants had accused Willis of having an "improper" affair with Wade, whom she hired to help...
  • Trump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Is The Fake News Media’s Latest Hysterics Over ‘Guy’ And ‘Sir’

    03/18/2024 3:06:36 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    The Federalist ^ | MARCH 18, 2024 | EDDIE SCARRY
    The media have been pseudo-analyzing Trump to impart dark meaning to his every word. Sometimes a metaphor is just that.Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar. But if it involves Donald Trump, the news media for various reasons insist it’s definitely a penis.We’re in the middle of another round of gravely serious media analysis about what Trump meant when he said something in public, this time that there would be a “bloodbath” if he didn’t win the election. Anyone who saw the remarks at a campaign rally Saturday in Ohio knew Trump was talking about the economic fallout of a...
  • Why rape survivors and exonerees went on a retreat together

    03/18/2024 2:45:10 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    CBS News ^ | March 17, 2024 | Lesley Stahl, Aliza Chasan, Shari Finkelstein, Collette Richards
    A rape survivor, attacked at knifepoint when she was 12, sat across from two men who'd been wrongfully convicted of sexually assaulting children. The woman, Tomeshia Carrington-Artis, was devastated two decades later when she learned that the man she was sure had been her attacker, was innocent. After his exoneration, people accused Carrington-Artis, now in her late 40s, of intentionally sending the wrong man to prison and said she should be behind bars. Carrington-Artis and the men she sat with were attendees at a retreat organized by the nonprofit organization Healing Justice — the 17th retreat the nonprofit has held....
  • Thousands of children's clothes laid along California beach in support to ceasefire in Gaza

    03/18/2024 2:17:50 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 43 replies
    KSBW ^ | Mar 18, 2024 | Leslie Duarte
    A line of children's outfits laid along Santa Cruz County beaches. The line of clothes stretched along a three-mile-long line that started at Sea Cliff State Beach and ended at Seascape Park Beach. The group behind the display consists of various community activists and organizations that support a ceasefire in Gaza. Organizers said the 13,000 outfits represent the number of children that have been killed in the conflict. According to UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, more than 12,300 children have died in Gaza between October 2023 and February 2024. "We've had a lot of people...
  • Biden Summons Israel for Talks; Says Netanyahu’s Position on Hamas Is ‘Nonsense’

    03/18/2024 2:03:00 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 85 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/18/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK
    National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters at the White House on Monday that President Joe Biden had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to oppose Israeli plans to attack Hamas in the city of Rafah. Sullivan added that the president had asked Netanyahu an “interagency” team of military, defense, and humanitarian officials by “the beginning of next week” to meet with U.S. officials in Washington and negotiate over a Rafah operation. He said that the Biden Administration might approve limited, targeted strikes in Rafah, but would refuse a broader Israeli invasion of the town, saying that such an...
  • Biden tells Netanyahu Rafah operation would be ‘mistake’ — after praising Schumer’s speech calling for ‘new election’ in Israel

    03/18/2024 1:41:38 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 24 replies
    NY Post ^ | 03/18/2024 | Diana Glebova
    President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday that sending Israeli troops into the southern Gaza city of Rafah would be a “mistake” — just three days after Biden praised Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s incendiary speech calling for the Jewish state to hold a “new election” and oust Netanyahu following the war against Hamas. “A major ground operation would be a mistake,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters that Biden, 81, stressed to Netanyahu, citing concerns about civilian safety in the city of more than 150,000 situated near the Egyptian border. Biden didn’t make “threats,” Sullivan added...