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  • Exclusive — Disarray Consumes Fox News as Murdochs Attempt to Reassert Control with Carlson, Bongino Ousters

    04/27/2023 5:53:13 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 35 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 27 Apr 2023 | MATTHEW BOYLE
    Fox News is trying to sideline former Tucker Carlson Tonight host Tucker Carlson through the 2024 election, multiple sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News. Carlson’s current contract runs through December 2024, and as of now three sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News that executives at the network are trying to keep Carlson on contract and not release him until after the 2024 election. The shocking decision to cancel Carlson’s top-rated weeknight program came just days after the network shut down its top-rated weekend program with host Dan Bongino. What follows here is an insider account from...
  • Dad restrained as he confronts suspect in fatal shooting daughter in movie theater: 'Look at me!'

    07/31/2021 8:40:31 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 72 replies
    Fox News ^ | 31 Jul 2021 | By Emma Colton
    The father of an 18-year-old woman who was killed in a movie theater shooting in California confronted the accused shooter during a court appearance. "Look at me. Look at me!" yelled Dave Goodrich at 20-year-old Joseph Jimenez at the Riverside Hall of Justice on Friday. "That was my daughter," he continued, as he began tearing up. Several people had to hold the grieving father back at one point during the confrontation, Fox 11 reported. Jimenez was arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and robbery on Tuesday after the fatal shooting during a screening of "The Forever Purge" at The...
  • TikTok star, teen were on first date when they were shot in the head during ‘The Purge’ screening

    07/30/2021 6:41:03 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 36 replies
    NY Post ^ | July 30, 2021 | 4:54pm | Lee Brown
    The California teenager blasted to death during a screening of violent crime movie “The Forever Purge” was on a first date with a young TikTok star who may now be brain dead, her grieving dad has revealed. “She was so f—ing happy,” private eye David Goodrich told DailyMail.com of his 18-year-old daughter Rylee Goodrich. “I could tell she really, really liked this boy. And he really, really liked her,” he said of his daughter’s new beau, Anthony Barajas, 19, who he revealed was shot through the eye in the attack in Corona Monday night. “They were so excited for their...
  • Woman Killed, TikTok Star Wounded in Shooting During Screening of ‘The Forever Purge’

    07/29/2021 12:31:04 PM PDT · by Steely Tom · 33 replies
    Rolling Stone ^ | 28 July 2021 | Jon Blistein
    An 18-year-old woman was killed and a 19-year-old social media influencer was injured in a shooting at a movie theater outside Los Angeles, local ABC affiliate KABC reports. The shooting took place just before midnight Tuesday, July 27th, during a screening of The Forever Purge. The woman who was killed was identified as Rylee Goodrich, while the wounded man was Anthony Barajas, who goes by the username “itsanthonymichael,” and has almost one million followers on TikTok.
  • Woman, 18, is shot dead and man, 19, is wounded in California movie theater during showing of horror film The Forever Purge which depicts dystopian world where all crime is legal for 12 hours

    07/27/2021 6:38:39 PM PDT · by blueplum · 21 replies
    Daily Mail uK ^ | 27 Jul 2021 | Adam Schrader
    The teens were attending a showing of the film at the Regal Edwards Corona Crossings the film when gunshots rang out around 11.45pm Monday Cops said that the woman, 18, died at the scene and the man, 19, was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries An employee found the teens after the movie- The Forever Purge - ended Cops have found no witnesses or surveillance camera footage indicating a possible suspect, or the weapon that fired the shots Officials added that six tickets had been sold for the movie showing and asked potential witnesses to come forward
  • Defense secretary orders military-wide stand down to combat extremism

    02/04/2021 9:11:24 AM PST · by Red Badger · 82 replies
    UPI ^ | FEB. 4, 2021 / 3:34 AM | By Darryl Coote
    Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin attends a congressional tribute on Wednesday to the late Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick who died from injuries sustain protecting the Capitol building from a mob breaching the facility on Jan. 6. Pool Photo by Erin Schaff/UPI | ============================================================== Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said he has ordered a military-wide stand down over the next 60 days to deal with extremism in the military's ranks after active and former military personnel participated in the mob that stormed the Capitol building last month. "Today, I met with senior leaders to discuss extremism in...
  • Austin Orders Military Stand Down to Address Challenge of Extremism in the Ranks (DOD release)

    02/03/2021 4:30:45 PM PST · by RoosterRedux · 157 replies
    Department of Defense ^ | JIM GARAMONE, DOD NEWS
    Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered a DOD-wide stand down to discuss the problem of extremism in the ranks, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said today. Austin and Army Gen. Mark A, Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with service civilian leaders and service chiefs to discuss the problem of extremism. Kirby noted that some of the extremists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 were active duty service members and others were military veterans. Kirby was quick to say that "the vast majority of men and women who serve in...
  • Christian Orthodox priest is 'suspended from all priestly functions' for attending Trump rally moments before rioters stormed the Capitol (the purge)

    01/21/2021 4:10:11 PM PST · by blueplum · 21 replies
    Daily Mai UK ^ | 21 Jan 2021 | Valerie Edwards
    Christian Orthodox priest Mark Hodges was 'suspended from priestly functions' His three-month suspension went into effect on January 12 after a church member reported seeing him in a video at the 'Save America' rally on January 6 Hodges claimed that he wasn't a part of the violence and never entered Capitol ...According to the website of the Orthodox Church in America’s Diocese of the Midwest, archpriest Mark Hodges was 'suspended from all priestly functions'. The suspension for Hodges, who is affiliated with St Paul the Apostle Orthodox Church in Greene County’s Sugarcreek Twp, Ohio, took effect on January 12.
  • The Trump-appointed NSA general counsel installed the day before Biden took office is now on leave due to a Department of Defense probe

    01/21/2021 2:09:27 AM PST · by blueplum · 20 replies
    Business Insider via MSN ^ | 20 Jan 2021 | Sarah Al-Arshani
    The Trump-installed General Counsel of the National Security Agency has been put on administrative leave a day after starting the role, due to a Department of Defense inspector general probe, CNN reported. Michael Ellis's installation just before President Joe Biden took office garnered criticism... ...Ellis's appointment came shortly after President-elect Joe Biden was projected to win the 2020 election in November. During that same month, the Washington Post reported that Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Jack Reed asked the Pentagon's inspector general to investigate Ellis's appointment on the grounds of "improper political influence." "...press accounts of White House involvement create...
  • President Joe Biden executive order reverses Donald Trump ban on race and gender diversity training

    01/21/2021 1:28:11 AM PST · by blueplum · 24 replies
    USA Today via MSN ^ | 20 Jan 2021 | Jessica Guynn
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  • Voice of America Boss Michael Pack Fired by Joe Biden

    01/21/2021 12:58:27 AM PST · by blueplum · 13 replies
    The Wrap via MSN ^ | 20 Jan 2021 | Reid Nakamura
    Michael Pack was fired by the Biden administration on Wednesday as head of the government agency overseeing federally funded international news outlets, including Voice of America. Pack, a pro-Trump documentary filmmaker, was confirmed as head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media in June, sparking an uproar from the organizations he was appointed to oversee. In a resignation letter, Pack called the move "a partisan act ...
  • Biden fires Trump-appointed labor board general counsel who refused to resign

    01/21/2021 12:54:38 AM PST · by blueplum · 37 replies
    WaPo via MSN ^ | 20 Jan 2021 | Eli Rosenberg, Reis Thebault
    A standoff between the Biden administration and the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel ended Wednesday evening in the top lawyer’s firing, according to a White House official. The fracas over now-former general counsel Peter Robb’s tenure unfolded just hours into Joe Biden’s presidency. It began earlier Wednesday, when the Biden administration asked Robb to resign, the White House official said, a precedent-breaking move first reported by Bloomberg Law. ...Robb, a Trump appointee with 10 months left in his Senate-confirmed role, refused. In a letter to the White House, he called the request “unprecedented ...
  • MyPillow is 'unavailable' on Macy's site as more retailers sever ties with CEO

    01/19/2021 4:49:33 PM PST · by Onthebrink · 96 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 1/19/2021 | Keith Griffth
    MyPillow is facing further pressure from retailers after CEO Mike Lindell's continued support of conspiracy theories regarding election fraud -- but some store chains are claiming it's due to lagging demand. On Tuesday, the Macy's website listed MyPillow products as 'currently unavailable', one day after Lindell said he'd been dropped by Bed Bath & Beyond, Kohl's and Wayfair.
  • Democrats are using the Capitol riot to smear Republican voters

    01/18/2021 5:47:07 PM PST · by blueplum · 23 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 18 Jan 2021 | Kaylee McGhee White, Commentary Writer
    What happened at the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 was unprecedented and unacceptable. But Democrats seem to see it as an opportunity to vilify not just President Trump but every single person who has ever supported him.... But those men and women do not represent many of the millions of Republicans who voted for the president in 2016 and 2020. Democrats would have you believe otherwise. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued last week that Republicans only “give a damn about white supremacy” and “preserving the social order and the mythology of whiteness.” Other congressional Democrats suggested Republican lawmakers were in...
  • Trump Lawyer Ousted as Law School Professor

    01/17/2021 8:17:02 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 76 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | JANUARY 17, 2021 | MATTHEW VADUM
    A lawyer who represented the Trump campaign in a legal challenge to the Pennsylvania election results was forced out of his post last week as a law professor at Chapman University in California for representing President Donald Trump as a client. But what especially earned the ire of left-wing activists at the famous conservative legal scholar’s school was that John C. Eastman spoke alongside the president at the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington. Violence began at the U.S. Capitol during certification of the presidential election results while the rally was still going on at the other end...
  • Hundreds in publishing sign letter objecting to book deals for the Trump administration [the Purge]

    01/15/2021 5:00:24 PM PST · by blueplum · 43 replies
    The LA Times ^ | 15 Jan 2021 | DORANY PINEDA
    More than 250 authors, editors, agents, professors and others in the American literary community signed an open letter this week opposing any publisher that signs book deals with President Donald Trump or members of his administration.... ...the letter read. “We affirm that participation in the administration of Donald Trump must be considered a uniquely mitigating criterion for publishing houses when considering book deals....The letter went on to invoke “Son of Sam” laws...
  • [watch] RUDY GIULIANI - WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON JANUARY 6TH? [YOUTUBE-DELETION]

    01/15/2021 12:21:55 PM PST · by blueplum · 19 replies
    [18 minute video with clips]
  • Ariel Pink dropped from label after attending Trump rally that led to D.C. riots

    01/08/2021 11:27:05 PM PST · by blueplum · 14 replies
    LA Times ^ | 08 Jan 2021 | Tracy Brown
    Indie musician Ariel Pink has been dropped from his label after he confirmed attending the Trump rally... ...The announcement came just a day following Pink’s explanation on Twitter that he had attended the Washington, D.C., rally to “peacefully show my support for the president.” “i attended the rally on the white house lawn and went back to hotel and took a nap. case closed,” he tweeted Thursday in response to a Twitter user who had called Pink and fellow indie musician John Maus out for participating in Wednesday’s event...
  • House Homeland Security Committee Chair Calls for Capitol Rioters to Be Put on No-Fly List

    01/07/2021 11:29:35 PM PST · by blueplum · 11 replies
    Newsweek via MSN ^ | 07 Jan 2021 | Aila Slisco
    The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security has called for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the FBI to ban those involved in Wednesday's insurrection that breached the U.S. Capitol building from flying on airplanes... ..."This should include all individuals identified as having entered the Capitol building—an intrusion which threatened the safety of Members of Congress and staff and served as an attack on our Nation."
  • Seattle Police Chief - "We cannot enforce the law. You are on your own."

    07/25/2020 12:36:08 PM PDT · by AggregateThreat · 101 replies
    "Simply put, the legislation gives officers NO ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large, violent crowd," reads a letter from Seattle Chief of Police, Carmen Best - who added that thanks to the City Council, "Seattle Police will have an adjusted deployment in response to any demonstrations this weekend."