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NBC News used deceptive imagery in an apparent attempt to gloss over an outrageous sexually explicit book being pushed on children. Twitter’s Community Notes participants were having none of it. NBC News tweeted out its story of how “[a]n Illinois teacher offered her middle schoolers a bestselling LGBTQ-themed book. Parents filed a police report over her book choice.” But the featured photo for the article included the teacher in question holding up a book titled: “Igniting Social Action in the ELA Classroom: Inquiry as Disruption.” Except, that wasn’t the book parents reportedly complained about, as Community Notes exposed. The book...

DECATUR, Ala. (WAFF) - A pedestrian was hit and killed in the parking lot of the Walmart Neighborhood Market on 6th Avenue in Decatur. Irene Cardenas-Martinez with the Decatur Police Department says officers responded to the incident at approximately 9 p.m. on Aug. 25. At the scene, officers arrested 33-year-old Preston Nelson on the charge of murder, according to online court documents. According to the Decatur Police, Nelson parked in a handicap spot near the store’s entrance and waited until Sain came out. Once Sain was behind Nelson’s car he reversed, pinning Sain between his Mercury Grand Marquis LS and...

Storm Eunice rips apart The O2: Large panels fly off iconic dome as 122MPH tempest claims first victim, leaves tens of thousands of homes without power and sparks chaos on roads, railways and at airports Top wind speed of 122mph is provisionally highest gust ever in England - even higher than 1987 Great Storm Met Office warns of 'flying debris resulting in danger to life', 'roofs blown off' and power lines down Hundreds of schools close, all trains in Wales suspended and rail passengers in England told not to travel British Airways cancels dozens of flights and major attractions including...

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING. The images interspersed throughout the video are graphic and many may find them highly disturbing. I did not provide any such images from the video below – just one photo of Dr. Jane Ruby and Mr. Richard Hirschman. The 3 images within the first 10 minutes are medical in nature, pertaining to blood clots in an embalming setting, the third picture includes a glimpse of the deceased's legs. I posted time markers in the transcript to indicate approximate location of the images, but I was not precise and they may appear a bit earlier in the video...

WEST HILLS (CBSLA) — The Los Angeles Coroner’s Office has identified the man involved in the horrific motorcycle accident that made waves across the Southland on Thursday. The incident took place on Thursday afternoon, when undercover officers with the Los Angeles Police Department began tailing the motorcycle after witnessing something that caused suspicion. After running the license plates through their system, it was determined that the vehicle was stolen. When they attempted to pull the suspect over, now identified as Ruben Contreras Jr., 30-years-old, he fled. Aerial footage from CBS LA’s Sky2 Chopper showed Contreras traveling at speeds well over...

A pileup involving 100 vehicles has killed at least five people, injured dozens more and brought traffic on a slippery Texas interstate to a halt, officials said Thursday. Fort Worth Fire Department spokesman Mike Drivdahl said authorities were going to each vehicle to assess medical needs after the "mass casualty incident" involving tractor-trailers and other vehicles on Interstate 35. The freeway will be closed all day "to remove vehicles one by one," he said. Thirty-six people have been taken to hospitals with varying degrees of injuries, according to the spokesman. Authorities had to use the Jaws of Life to pry...

I am a 40-something attorney and mother who lives in a quiet neighborhood with a yard and a garage full of scooters and soccer balls. I often walk with my children to get ice cream and spend weekends hiking through a national park. I am not the type of person who would normally consider becoming a Satanist, but these are not normal times. Like so many other women in the United States, when I learned of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing, my first reaction was not grief but fear. I fear that American citizens are inching closer to living...

At least 7,000 health workers around the world have died as a result of contracting the coronavirus, according to analysis published by Amnesty International. The human rights group said at least 1,320 health workers were confirmed to have died as a result of Covid-19 in Mexico alone, the highest known figure for any country worldwide. Health worker fatalities related to the virus were also high in the U.S. (1,077) and Brazil (634), Amnesty International said. “Many months into the pandemic, health workers are still dying at horrific rates in countries such as Mexico, Brazil and the USA, while the rapid...

A teenage mine worker has been mauled to death by a female grizzly bear and her two cubs on an Alaskan island. Anthony David Montoya, 18, a contract worker from Hollis, Oklahoma, died at a remote drill site accessible only by helicopter on Monday, authorities said. State Troopers said Montoya, who worked for Idaho-based Timberline Drilling, had been working at a drill site on the edge of the Hecla Greens Creek Mine property in southeastern Alaska when he was attacked. He was mauled by the three bears, all of which were killed before they arrived. (?????? who are they???) sod...

Satanic ritual performed as offering to Moloch to obtain prosperityNOVO HAMBURGO, Brazil (ChurchMilitant.com) - Details are emerging of a grisly satanic ritual involving the dismemberment of children in South America. Brazilian police recently disclosed the details of an on-going investigation about the murder of two young siblings offered as human sacrifice in a demonic ritual last August. The corpses of the children (a boy, 8, and a girl, 10) were found dismembered in September in the city of Novo Hamburgo, in Southern Brazil. According to the police statement, the children were sold by their own parents in Argentina. The "prosperity...

Officials discovered another mass grave in Sinjar, Iraq, containing bodies of Yazidis, including children, who refused to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). CNN toured the town with Mayor Mahama al-Shangali. He showed Nima Elbagir a new mass grave filled with at least 130 bodies of men, women, and children. The Islamic State wanted to take these people to Tal Afar, but they resisted. Elbagir reports: But they refused to go. So they were killed, young and old alike. Standing at the gravesite, I could still see tossed on the ground the cloth ties that bound their hands. The prayer beads...

The suspect first went for the Rojas, who has been working with the department for about two years. When Adams, a 13-year department veteran, stepped in to help her partner, the suspect turned his attention — and his weapon — to her. Both paramedics were stabbed and slashed repeatedly before making it back to their vehicle. Adams then drove she and her partner to Detroit Receiving Hospital where both remain in serious condition. “It was a horrific scene. The EMS rig, the scene inside of the rig is horrific. Their injuries are horrific,” Jones said, adding that both paramedics will...

It's the Joe Biden you didn’t know — and might not want to see. Secret Service agents dread being assigned to protect the vice president, in part because Biden’s a big fan of skinny dipping, according to a new tell-all book. In “The First Family Detail,” author Ronald Kessler quotes unnamed Secret Service agents dishing about the supposedly “hidden lives” of Presidents and the other important people they protect.

The video of Dear Leader's horrific 'slip' is over at GatewayPundit. The profound idiocy of his 'captured the world's imagination' statement is so vapid and ugly that I cannot even make a TOTUS joke.

The former governor said Obama represented the best hope for an America facing an economic crisis.Former Republican Gov. Arne Carlson endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama today, saying Obama represented the best hope for an America facing an economic crisis and criticizing Republicans for waging a mean-spirited campaign that has "been going down all these side roads." Introduced to a standing ovation at the State Capitol by U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, Carlson said his party had strayed from the moderate philosophies of past Republican leaders such as Ohio Sen. Robert Taft and President Dwight Eisenhower. "I consider...

A Fairfax County jury yesterday convicted {Salvadoran} Alfredo R. Prieto of two counts of capital murder in the slaying of a young couple near Reston in December 1988, and the jury will decide whether he should be executed....Prieto is on death row in California for the 1990 rape and shooting of a 15-year-old girl....is also charged in Arlington County with the rape and shooting of a woman in 1988...In addition, Prieto is a "strong suspect" in the fatal shooting of a man in Prince William County in 1989, Prince William Commonwealth's Attorney Paul B. Ebert said...authorities think Prieto killed five...

Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life advocates who purchased a building that formerly housed a Wichita, Kansas abortion facility say they have employed chemicals normally used to investigate crime scenes and found the walls of the room where abortions were performed completely covered in unseen blood. Members of Operation Rescue, a pro-life group that purchased the former Central Women's Services abortion business building, conducted blood trace tests. The group decided to test various surfaces and walls inside the building, which has remain unchanged since the pro-life group purchased it in June. The abortion business occupied the facility for 23 years. Using...

Botched Abortion: She Was “Awake and Screaming” Dangerous CA abortion chain sends another woman to the hospitalSanta Ana, CA – A woman was rushed to the hospital by ambulance on Saturday, February 11, 2006 after a botched abortion at Clinica Medica Para La Mujer De Hoy located in Santa Ana, California. Pro-life sidewalk counselor Tim Nissen had the presence of mind to photograph the incident with a cell phone camera.According to Nissen, the woman was “awake and screaming” as she was wheeled from the front door of the abortion mill and loaded into an awaiting ambulance. Nissan indicated that he...

I was just listening to a radio talk show promo and the background was a clip from a story which, when it broke, was "HORRIFIC"! It was the 'laser aimed at the pilot' story. That story, while considered "HORRIFIC" at the time was only in the limelight for a day or so. How many headline news stories only lasted a day. Can you FReepers add others?

Bush Administration Files Another Partial-Birth Abortion Lawsuit Brief Email this article Printer friendly page by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com Editor February 12, 2005 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Bush administration on Friday filed another brief defending the federal ban on partial-birth abortions. The brief comes in an appeal of a Nebraska judge's decision overturning the ban in one of three lawsuits filed against it by abortion advocates.The brief is part of an appeal to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals challenging a September ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf saying the ban was too vague and would prohibit other types of abortions.The...