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What are they trying to hide? Tall black fencing that stretches for miles and miles has been hastily constructed around the perimeter of Lahaina, and this has created a tremendous amount of speculation. Are they trying to keep people out? Are they trying to keep people from seeing what really happened in Lahaina? There are so many questions that all of us should be asking right now. An independent journalist has captured video footage of this giant black fence that has been put up, and it is super creepy… The official explanation that we are being given for this black...

Florida's Ron DeSantis was savagely booed off the podium at a vigil he attended for three black people killed at a Dollar Store during a racist mass shooting. The Governor, 44, was called out by local councilmembers before taking to the mic himself and was met with overwhelming negativity from the crowd - as one heckler shouted: 'Your policies caused this!' Councilwoman Ju'Coby Pittman called for better state funding before DeSantis took to the stage: 'Let's be honest, we don't get the money we should get. 'But when I ask for some money this week, we gonna get it.' He...

[H/T CheshireTheCat]ransomnote: I redacted profanity and noted the videos which contain profanity.14,027 views🇺🇸@FreeStateWillAug 21 • 16 tweets • 7 min read Read on Twitter I have filed a motion to compel the government to produce all materials related to undercover police at the Capitol on January 6, and to produce missing police body camera recordings. This motion presents new evidence of illicit behavior by undercover police at the Capitol. Police bodycams are important to January 6 defenses because they reveal real-time candid assessments. My motion includes an exhibit of Officer Joseph Young’s recording that captures Officer Pittmon assessing that police...

ATLANTA — The purported names and addresses of members of the grand jury that indicted Donald Trump and 18 of his co-defendants on state racketeering charges this week have been posted on a fringe website that often features violent rhetoric, NBC News has learned. NBC News is choosing not to name the website featuring the addresses to avoid further spreading the information. The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis faced racist threats ahead of the return of the indictment and additional security measures were put in place, with some employees being allowed...

A Black man is taking legal action after claiming that he was harassed and racially discriminated against by his supervisor while working at a California university, leading to him experiencing “panic attacks,” heightened fear, anxiety and other health issues, court documents allege. Court documents show Vaughn is seeking damages due to the institution’s failure to protect him from a hostile work environment. “Ms. Rubin’s repeated race-based harassment of Mr. Vaughn and other non-white SFSU employees would be indefensible anywhere, but especially at an educational institution where diversity, inclusivity, and respect… should be upheld,” Rubin’s attorney Arash Sadat told the San...

LGBTQ+ protestors who recently attended a Ron DeSantis presidential event claim they were physically abused by staff and attendees for holding up a rainbow flag during the speech. The governor has been viewed by many as the Republicans' culture war candidate, due to various anti-LGBTQ legislation pertaining to K-12 education, book bans and his public spats with Disney that have resulted in litigation. Protesting turning into violence is not entirely uncommon at campaign events. One protester was purportedly punched and kicked at a Donald Trump rally in 2016 before being escorted out, according to NBC News. However, research by the...

A New York police officer who complained for months about receiving menacing text messages from her colleagues was arrested after investigators alleged she’d been the one sending them all along. Emily Hirshowitz, 36, of the Ossining Police Department, was charged at the Westchester District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday with four counts of third-degree falsely reporting an incident, along with three counts of first-degree filing a false instrument. The latter is a felony which accuses her of filing a report with the intention of defrauding. Beginning in May of 2022, Hirshowitz filed a report to the DA’s office that she was...

Excuse us while we adjust the fourth ... no wait ... fifth tinfoil hat we've had in just this year alone. We've learned to appreciate the tinfoil because it seems more often than not there is enough truth in what we're hearing (seeing, reading, etc) that we need to pay attention. We need to write about it, share it, get that info out there because we know the mainstream media will not. In fact, they'll work very hard to make those of us talking about it out to be CRAY-CRAY. It's what they do. And this from Tucker Carlson about...

Pam Hemphill, who received a two-month sentence in federal prison for her involvement in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, tells CNN's Gary Tuchman she was "brainwashed."

The suspected Philadelphia mass shooter told police that his deadly rampage earlier this week was an attempt to fight the city's gun violence crisis. Police say 40-year-old Kimbrady Carriker wore a bulletproof vest and was armed with two ghost guns - an AR-15-style rifle and a handgun - as he stalked an area spanning several blocks in the Kingsessing section of Philadelphia, where he allegedly shot seven people, killing five of them. Carriker, a cross-dresser obsessed by guns, was taken into custody 10 minutes after police arrived on the scene and was arraigned Wednesday on five counts of murder. In...

Former President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform what he claimed was the home address of former President Barack Obama on the same day that a man with guns in his van was arrested near the property, federal prosecutors said Wednesday in revealing new details about the case. Taylor Taranto, 37, who prosecutors say participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, kept two firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition inside a van he had driven cross-country and had been living in, according to a Justice Department motion that seeks to keep him behind...

It started with the peaceful protest of a “pride” drag show by a children’s theater group during the first-ever Pride Day in a small town near Portland, Ore. It could have ended there but for a brawl between the Proud Boys and the masked bunch who attempted to infiltrate the group on Saturday. The gauzy in-between of it all is being seized upon by politicos such as former Congressman Adam Kinzinger and Rep. Eric Swalwell to make their political points. Even Elon Musk wanted to know what was going on. Naturally, because the media and Democrat narrative prevails, the Proud...

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Vaccine scientist Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, revealed in a Twitter postopens in a new tab or window this past weekend that anti-vaxxers accosted him outside his home in Texas. "Ugh I just was stalked in front of my home by a couple of antivaxers taunting me to debate RFKJr," Hotez wroteopens in a new tab or window. "Of course I was looking my Sunday best in our brutal heat wave," he added, along with an image of himself dressed in a wide-brimmed hat and Houston Texans t-shirt. "What is it with people? Well at least Houstonian's now know I support...

A San Diego man claims he was ambushed and set on fire by a group of 'hate-filled' attackers after leaving a restaurant. Scott Rowin, 39, said he was attacked while walking through the city's Hillcrest neighborhood on June 18 as he was leaving a local restaurant. Rowin told ABC 10 that two attackers shouted 'f**got' at him prior to rushing up and dousing him with a liquid that had the consistency of water. 'Immediately after that, I went up like coals on a barbecue. It started off really big,' said the man who sustained serious burns in the incident. He...

Dozens of LGBTQ+ pride flags were damaged and ripped down at the Stonewall National Monument over the weekend, the third such bout of vandalism at the LGBTQ+ landmark during this Pride month, police said. The latest occurrence happened Sunday, after others on June 9 and last Thursday. No arrests have been made in any of the incidents, and it’s unclear whether they were connected. The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating. On Sunday, officers were called around 8 a.m. and found about 33 pride flags broken and tossed to the ground, police said. Park volunteer Steven...

Over two years ago, on January 5, 2021, a suspect planted pipe bombs near the Washington DC RNC and DNC headquarters the night before the January 6, 2021 protests. The culprit was caught on video but never caught by the FBI – the so-called greatest intelligence service in the world. snip in 2022 a whistleblower stepped forward and disclosed that the FBI was withholding information on the investigation. In May, Representatives Jim Jordan (R-OH), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Bill Posey (R-FL) sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), demanding an update on the case of the J6...

The group of Neo-Nazis who protested outside Disney World were from a newly-established hate group identified as the Order of the Black Sun and the protest was their first. Anti-Defamation League (ADL) researcher Ben Popp told local media that the group - also known as 'OBS' - is a white supremacist network that formed just months ago. Popp said the hate group is 'well known' to the ADL and that it's comprised of individuals who have 'been involved in other white supremacist groups and organizations in the state of Florida for the past couple of years.' Pictures and videos posted...

Divergent parties began assembling outside of the federal courthouse in Miami ahead of former President Donald Trump's arraignment on Tuesday, with pro-Trump individuals there to show support for the current frontrunner in the 2024 Republican presidential primary and leftists there to celebrate the indictment. That mix, as friend of Townhall Marina Medvin pointed out, is a "recipe for tumult, if not worse." blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Antifa put out a statement saying they will be in front of the Miami federal courthouse on Tuesday to celebrate Trump’s charges.MAGA folks said they’re flying in to support Trump on his first court date— also planning...