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New Mexico law enforcement has confirmed that the man behind the shooting of homes of Democratic officials was motivated by Trump’s election lies.

The Washington Post reported:

In an interview, Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina said he has no doubt that Peña was motivated by Trump’s false claims of election fraud following the former president’s 2020 defeat. Medina said Peña regularly expressed extreme views on social media and boasted of attending Trump’s Stop the Steal rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.

“The individual that we’re charging believed in that conspiracy,” Medina said. “He did believe that his election was unfair and he did escalate and resort to violence as a means to find justice.”

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3 hours ago, Wideleft said:

It's always projection with the right.

 

Now I know why Gas Pedal was sitting next to him during the speaker election.

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The truth is he doesn't want to upset anyone and still hopes on landing on the SCOTUS one day.

 

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So Trump thought that a picture of E Jean Carroll was his ex wife Marla Maples, he is also on record saying Ms. Carroll is not his type. Oh Oh

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9 hours ago, bustamente said:

The truth is he doesn't want to upset anyone and still hopes on landing on the SCOTUS one day.

 

Merrick Garland continues to be the most dangerous man in the US right now.

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4 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Merrick Garland continues to be the most dangerous man in the US right now.

I really don't think he wants to be known as the guy who put a former POTUS in jail, if that is true he needs to resign and let the judicial process hold treasonous people who held power accountable.

 

Edited January 19, 2023 by bustamente

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5 minutes ago, bustamente said:

I really don't think he wants to be known as the guy who put a former POTUS in jail, if that is true he needs to resign and let the judicial process hold treasonous people who held power accountable.

 

Yea and it's not about what he wants for his legacy or optics or anything, it's about following the rule of law no matter who you are that he blathers and blisters and blusters about every time he gets in front of the podium. 

It's f'ing frustrating and maddening. 

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https://tvline.com/2023/01/19/ben-savage-running-for-congress-boy-meets-world-cory-matthews/

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George Santos was reportedly a Brazilian drag queen named 'Kitara Ravache'

Journalist Marisa Kabas, an opinion columnist for MSNBC, has the scoop:
“Eula Rochard, a Brazilian drag queen who was friends with George Santos when he lived near Rio,” she writes, referring to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, “said everyone knew him as Anthony (*never* George), or by his drag name, Kitara, and confirms this photo is from a 2008 drag show at Icaraí Beach.”

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-fines-trump-nearly-1-million-for-filing-revenge-suit-against-hillary-clinton

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2 States Introduce Radical Bills To Prosecute Women For Abortions

Republicans in Arkansas and Oklahoma introduced bills this week that would allow authorities to criminally prosecute pregnant people for seeking abortion care. The legislation offers a terrifying preview of what’s to come in a country that no longer has federal abortion protections.

Oklahoma Senate Bill 287 and Arkansas House Bill 1174 were proposed with the specific intent to criminalize anyone who gets an abortion. The Oklahoma legislation aims to amend the state’s near-total abortion ban to eliminate language that protects pregnant people from prosecution. The Arkansas legislation would let the state’s homicide laws apply to aborted fetuses and give them due process protections, while also repealing protections for people who “solicit, advise, encourage, or coerce a pregnant woman” to get an abortion.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/states-introduce-radical-bills-to-prosecute-pregnant-people-for-abortions_n_63cad58be4b0c2b49ad52898

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1 hour ago, Tracker said:

2 States Introduce Radical Bills To Prosecute Women For Abortions

Republicans in Arkansas and Oklahoma introduced bills this week that would allow authorities to criminally prosecute pregnant people for seeking abortion care. The legislation offers a terrifying preview of what’s to come in a country that no longer has federal abortion protections.

Oklahoma Senate Bill 287 and Arkansas House Bill 1174 were proposed with the specific intent to criminalize anyone who gets an abortion. The Oklahoma legislation aims to amend the state’s near-total abortion ban to eliminate language that protects pregnant people from prosecution. The Arkansas legislation would let the state’s homicide laws apply to aborted fetuses and give them due process protections, while also repealing protections for people who “solicit, advise, encourage, or coerce a pregnant woman” to get an abortion.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/states-introduce-radical-bills-to-prosecute-pregnant-people-for-abortions_n_63cad58be4b0c2b49ad52898

Women gets raped and impregnated by rapist. Women gets rapists' seed out of her body. Woman gets charged with homicide.

Girl gets raped and impregnated by her rapist father. Girl gets counselling from mother and gets rid of rapist fathers seed. Mother and daughter get charged with homicide.

Yea that makes sense. ffs

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The Secret Service had nothing to say about Trump and his antics, but if you want to know who went to Biden's residence give the Secret Service a call.

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Kansas man says God told him to threaten GOP lawmaker for ignoring dangers of wizards and sorcery

A Kansas man on trial for a death threat to a U.S. representative has said he was inspired by God for his actions and that the charges need to be dismissed.

According to FOX News, Chase Neill from Lawrence, Kansas became obsessed with State Rep. Jake LaTurner and was angered that he ignored his pleas to fight against the dangers posed by alien life forms, sorcery and wizards.
After disclosing to the jury that he sees his official job as combatting "high sorcery," Neill attempted to put his faith on display.

"I am really trying to explain how I interact with God, and it is a difficult explanation," he told the jury. "I apologize. I am held to an obligation by our Creator."

That obligation included Neill leaving a voicemail in June for LaTurner at his Topeka office after office hours that included him saying, "I will kill you."

Neill, who is representing himself in court as his own lawyer, said his actions were responses to hearing God's "trumpet." Neill has described himself solely as a messenger and told LaTurner that he and other politicians are facing death by an act of God as a punishment for their actions.

"I am not going to try to pursue him for some sort of violent crime," Neill said during trial testimony.

https://www.alternet.org/kansas-man-wizards-and-sorcery/

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New Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Allegations Revealed in Secret Sundance Doc
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Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 confirmation to the Supreme Court was embroiled in controversy when multiple women accused him of sexual assault. One of them, Christine Blasey Ford, testified before Congress about the alleged rape she suffered at his hands in high school. Justice is a horrifying and infuriating inquiry into those claims, told in large part by friends of Ford, lawyers and medical experts, and another of Kavanaugh’s alleged victims: Deborah Ramirez, a classmate of his at Yale.

Most damning of all, it features a never-heard-before audio recording made by one of Kavanaugh’s Yale colleagues—Partnership for Public Service president and CEO Max Stier—that not only corroborates Ramirez’s charges, but suggests that Kavanaugh violated another unnamed woman as well.

A last-minute addition to this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Justice is the first feature documentary helmed by Doug Liman, a director best known for Hollywood hits like Swingers, Go, The Bourne Identity, and Edge of Tomorrow. His latest is far removed from those fictional mainstream efforts, caustically censuring Kavanaugh and the political process that elevated him to the nation’s highest judicial bench, and casting a sympathetic eye on Ford, Ramirez ,and their fellow accusers.

Liman’s film may not deliver many new bombshells, but he and writer/producer Amy Herdy makes up for a relative dearth of explosive revelations by lucidly recounting this ugly chapter in recent American history, as well as by giving voice to women whose allegations were picked apart, mocked and, ultimately, ignored.

https://www.thedailybeast.com

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No she doesn't look crazy why do you ask

 

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Another day another loser with a gun in America

https://deadline.com/2023/01/monterey-park-shooting-lunar-new-year-california-1235236286/

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Empathy, Trump has none of it, rallies cost big money Trump has none so he resorts to giving a speech at a funeral.

 

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7 hours ago, bustamente said:

Empathy, Trump has none of it, rallies cost big money Trump has none so he resorts to giving a speech at a funeral.

 

Classic Donald Trump. I am surprised he didn't segue into discussing how poorly toilets flush.

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1 minute ago, Tracker said:

Classic Donald Trump. I am surprised he didn't segue into discussing how poorly toilets flush.

I wonder if he charged them a fee for showing up

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How a Kansas mayor pulled off a 'coup' using Trump-like tactics: report

In the Wichita, Kansas suburb of Goddard, Democrats accuse Mayor Hunter Larkin, a far-right MAGA Republican, of using the “Stop the Steal” tactics that Donald Trump employed after the 2020 presidential election. But the difference between Trump in 2020/early 2021 and Larkin in 2023, according to his critics, is the fact that Larkin’s “coup” succeeded.

Journalist Justin Rohrlich, in an article published by the Daily Beast on January 23, explains, “A small Kansas town is reeling after a baby-faced 23-year-old manipulated procedural technicalities to reinstall himself as mayor in one night, seemingly taking a page from the playbook used by former President Donald Trump after he was voted out of office. Only, this time, it worked.”

“Larkin’s improbable ascent to office can be traced back to August 2020, when the then-mayor of Goddard stepped down amid a fraud charge for counterfeiting tickets to the local zoo’s ‘Zoobilee’ charity fundraiser,” Rohrlich reports. “Then-21-year-old City Council President Hunter Larkin was appointed to the job. In November 2021, Larkin, who by day works as an accounting manager for a fiberglass oil field pipe manufacturer owned by a wealthy local family that has helped fund his political aspirations, was busted for DUI. He later pleaded guilty, receiving a sentence of probation and staying on as mayor until May 2022, when he resigned in the wake of a news report calling his ethics into question…. Vice-Mayor Larry Zimmerman was then appointed Goddard’s mayor, and has filled the position since — until last Tuesday night.”

Larkin became a member of the Goddard City Council. And during a Council meeting, according to Rohrlich, Larkin “swiftly proposed removing Zimmerman as mayor, a motion which was approved by all except Zimmerman himself.”

Larkin’s power grab worked, and one of his critics is Wichita Assistant District Attorney Brady Burge.

Burge told the Beast, “It is definitely troubling. The local level is where it all starts, and you definitely don’t like to see things like that happening in your own community…. (Larkin) has had trouble in the past building trust with our community, and it looks like it happened again.”

https://www.alternet.org/kansas-mayor-trump-like-coup/

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Former FBI Official At Field Office That Allegedly Leaked Clinton Email Info Arrested For Ties To Russian Oligarch

In 2016 the FBI’s New York field office allegedly leaked Hillary Clinton email info. The man who ran counterintelligence in that office has been arrested for ties to a Russian oligarch.

ABC News reported:  Charles McGonigal, who was the special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI’s New York Field Office, is under arrest over his ties to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire who has been sanctioned by the United States and criminally charged last year with violating those sanctions.

McGonigal and Shestakov, who worked for the FBI investigating oligarchs, allegedly agreed in 2021 to investigate a rival Russian oligarch in return for payments from Deripaska, according to the Justice Department. McGonigal and Shestakov are accused of receiving payments through shell companies and forging signatures in order to keep it a secret that Deripaska was paying them.

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'My heart is broken': Florida teachers ordered to remove, block class libraries or face felony prosecution

Teachers in Manatee County, Florida, are being ordered to remove or make inaccessible libraries of books inside their classrooms or face possible felony prosecution, as the district responds to legislation Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law prohibiting any books that have not been thoroughly vetted by a credentialed librarian.

The law, which went into effect at the start of this year, “is based on the premise, promoted by right-wing advocacy groups, that teachers and librarians are using books to ‘groom’ students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies,” according to Judd Legum at Popular Information.
He puts it simply: “classroom libraries that are curated by teachers, not librarians, are now illegal.”

“My heart is broken for Florida students today as I am forced to pack up my classroom library,” one teacher wrote on Facebook, Legum reports.

Calling it a “travesty to education, the future of our children and our nation,” another teacher lamented they have spent 18 years “dedicated to providing students with quality literature,” and helping them “connect with books and develop a love of lifelong learning,” but now they will have to dismantle their classroom library.

Kevin Chapman, the Chief of Staff for the Manatee County School District, “says that school principals in Manatee County were told Wednesday that any staff member violating these rules by providing materials ‘harmful to minors’ could be prosecuted for ‘a felony of the third degree.'”

https://www.alternet.org/smartnews/desantis/

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Cheats at golf, how can such a honest god fearing family man be accused of this, apparently his competitors told him he should be on PGA tour he is just that good.

 

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