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IDF has arrested 440 Palestinians, including many Hamas members, in West Bank since Oct. 7
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Chicago's homicide rate up; Black residents are 77% of victims
[JustTheNews]
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 08:41 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [25 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  “The reality is African-American people must find a way to unify with these young guys out here,” Hardiman added. “Black men have got to step up and become more prominent in their communities to stop these young guys from killing each other......"

Best of luck with that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2023 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ "Cat herding," but with rabid sabertooth tigers.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/19/2023 10:17 Comments || Top||

#3  what % of the killers?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/19/2023 10:20 Comments || Top||

#4  In all honesty...Given Chicago demographics obviously the victims number should similar.

But look at heyjackass.com and see the figures for crimes by one race vs other races. That tells a bigger story.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/19/2023 10:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Most victims match the race of their perps. It is a sad situation, but it reminds us that diversity is not working out well for any group.
Posted by: Brett Stevens || 10/19/2023 10:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Black on black = who's strapped and gets the drop. Go up against whitey and you get a spectrum from the "activist" in Brooklyn last week to Bernie Goetz to Kyle Rittenhouse to Rambo.

The white end of the spectrum actually has more hues.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/19/2023 10:57 Comments || Top||

#7  NN2N1, great site! Thanks.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/19/2023 11:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Ticked up you say? Noted.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/19/2023 12:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Says Science (and racist far-right),
All colors, united, make white,
So why back light's lack
For an uppercase "Black?"
Why insist that it's brighter at night?

Wokeness at Noon?
Posted by: Spusolet Smith7033 || 10/19/2023 13:32 Comments || Top||

#10  The crack o' noon, even.
Posted by: Shirley Q Smith7033 || 10/19/2023 13:34 Comments || Top||

#11  I guess those black lives don't matter?
Posted by: Tom || 10/19/2023 14:09 Comments || Top||

#12  My bet is that 50% of the white deaths are homeless folks. A lower but significant number of blacks as well. You could reclassify all the fentanyl ODs as having been killed by Biden.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/19/2023 20:12 Comments || Top||


Colorado 'blood brothers' threw rocks at moving cars for 2 months before killing woman: investigator
[FoxNews] A Colorado investigator testified Wednesday that the teenagers accused of killing a 20-year-old woman after throwing a landscaping rock through her car windshield had been throwing rocks at moving vehicles for about two months before their actions allegedly resulted in a fatality.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office (JCSO) in April arrested three then-18-year-old suspects — Joseph Koenig, Nicholas "Mitch" Karol-Chik and Zachary Kwak, of Arvada — in connection with the homicide of Alexa Bartell, who died after a large rock flew through her windshield and hit her in the head on April 19. A judge ruled after a preliminary hearing Wednesday that the three teens will face trial.

The lead investigator assigned to the case testified during the preliminary hearing that Karol-Chik told him he and his friends had thrown rocks at cars approximately 10 times between February and April.

Prior to Bartell's death, Koenig and Karol-Chik allegedly threw a landscaping "statue head" at a vehicle carrying a couple and their children earlier in April, the investigator testified.

The suspected admitted to "throwing rocks not just at targets but at people driving," the investigator said.
Small boulders, not pebbles.
Between 10 p.m. and 12 a.m. on April 19 and April 20, the suspects allegedly threw rocks at six different cars, injuring multiple drivers and killing Bartell. Earlier on April 19, they made plans to meet up and drove to Walmart together, where they picked up landscaping rocks from the edge of the store's parking lot and loaded the rocks into Koenig's pickup, according to an arrest affidavit previously obtained by Fox News Digital.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 08:25 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [18 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Premeditation box is checked.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/19/2023 20:15 Comments || Top||


Attempted Ohio train derailments part of alleged terrorist plot: court docs
[FoxNews] CSX train employees found metal materials jammed into the tracks and rail switches of an Ohio train line for months after a near-catastrophic derailment in August, according to court documents.

During a test run for a CSX employee appreciation day, a train hit an obstruction on the track and temporarily derailed before the wheels dropped back into place.

The seemingly mysterious accident quickly became a concerning issue when employees continued to find more "purposefully placed" materials along the tracks, which matched methods taught by international terrorist groups to make homemade derail devices, court documents say.

The investigation led to Cleveland man Joseph Findley, 43, who was arrested and charged with terrorist attacks against railroad carriers.

Findley lives with his parents, who could not be reached by Fox News Digital. His mother told Fox 8, though, that her son is not a terrorist.

"He's never been a bad kid, never, he was always good. He’s no terrorist, somebody’s making that up," his mom told the local news outlet, which asked what would explain his alleged actions.

"Being depressed, because he lost his job, he lost his girlfriend, but he never did anything like that," she said. "They’re nuts, he’s not a terrorist. I think they all exaggerated it because he never did anything bad."

The Amtrak train along that line typically carries between 180 and 200 passengers twice per day, according to court documents.
Details about how he was caught at the link. He definitely needs to be punished, but terrorism is not the right label, in my opinion.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 08:20 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [13 views] Top|| File under:


Fury as homeless man, 46, camping outside San Francisco school with signs saying 'free fentanyl' and 'meth for stolen items' is unmasked as a convicted PEDOPHILE
[DM]
  • Joseph Moore was jailed for six years for lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 in 1997

  • He has camped outside the $11,500-a-year Stella Maris Academy with provocative signs offering meth and 'free fentanyl'

  • Moore reportedly admitted to selling drugs when questioned by a local media outlet
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 06:38 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [27 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Man was trying to rebuild his life.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/19/2023 7:20 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Starting a new business.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/19/2023 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3  ^"You didn't build that business."-Obama
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 8:08 Comments || Top||

#4  He says he has fenty and meth and fences swag, and you're suprised he's a criminal. I'm suprised he's not a congressman.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/19/2023 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Man, talk about living the dream!
Posted by: SteveS || 10/19/2023 10:13 Comments || Top||

#6  The provocative sign would have provoked a 2AM baseball practice at his campsite in many places in America.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/19/2023 20:28 Comments || Top||


Woman, 29, is critically injured after being shoved into moving subway train in NYC Midtown
the suspect, Sabir Jones
"He is known to the department"

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The police are searching for the suspect, described as a man in his 30s, six feet tall, last seen wearing a white grey shirt and grey sweatpants. The suspect is said to have a criminal history. He was heard mumbling to himself when he randomly pushed the victim to the subway tracks.

Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [26 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sabir Jones - do I have to see the pic?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/19/2023 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  No idea — the Daily Mail actually didn’t have a photo of him when I looked earlier, Grom. But perhaps a search of the name on the internet will reveal one since.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/19/2023 2:10 Comments || Top||

#3  About 15 sec in
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/19/2023 2:16 Comments || Top||

#4  So we see who he is and what he looks like.
Which is unusual for the media to show, given they displayed a person of color and acknowledged he attempted to murder a woman.

But did the media also do a 180 of the old Race avoidance narrative, by not showing a pic of the Victim?

So we can who he attacked?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/19/2023 7:30 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ kinda doesn't matter.
She was hit in the head with a train.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 8:12 Comments || Top||

#6  New York is the City of the Future! ™

The Future:
Would you like a climbing anchor for your trip through the subway?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2023 8:22 Comments || Top||

#7  I always stand well back from the track until the train pulls in, and I maintain situational awareness. Too many crazies these days.
Posted by: KBK || 10/19/2023 22:01 Comments || Top||


Joran van der Sloot finally admits to grisly murder of Natalee Holloway in 2005
[NYPOST] Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the mysterious disappearance of Natalee Holloway, has admitted he bludgeoned the Alabama teen to death in 2005 and buried her remains.

Van der Sloot made the shocking admission Wednesday in an Alabama courtroom with Holloway’s parents present, TMZ reported.

"You changed the course of our lives and you turned them upside down," her mother, Beth Holloway, said in court, standing a few feet from van der Sloot. "You are a killer."

Van der Sloot, 36, a Dutch citizen, has not been charged in Holloway’s death but was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison for extortion and wire fraud after asking her family for $250,000 to reveal the location of her body.

The new sentence is to run concurrently with a 28-year sentence he is serving in Peru in the 2010 slaying of Stephany Flores.

Judge Anna Manasco said she considered van der Sloot’s confession to Holloway’s murder and the destruction of her remains as part of the sentencing decision.

Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Alabama prison that better than the one in Peru?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/19/2023 11:36 Comments || Top||

#2  ^^^^ at least there will be video of him being beat in an American prison.
Posted by: Chris || 10/19/2023 11:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Not if they are Epstein cameras….those things never seem to work when they should.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/19/2023 15:30 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder how much he cost Aruba in tourist dollars.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/19/2023 19:51 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
The Epidemic Of ‘Mentally Unstable' Climate Activists
[BitChute] Climate activists have gone crazy.

From blockading roads, disrupting events and using extreme language to scare young people, climate change warriors across the globe are on a mission to force their message down the throats of everyone by any means necessary, and they won’t be stopped.

Sky News Australia All Stars Rita Panahi, Piers Morgan and Chris Kenny expose the worrying epidemic of increasingly ‘mentally unstable’ climate activists.
The same shallow end of the gene pool that Antifa, etc. draw from, so of course they are. Nice that Sky News-Australia has noticed, though.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/19/2023 02:23 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [15 views] Top|| File under:


#2  We assume that these who make money of it are stable?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/19/2023 7:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Children frequently throw tantrums when they don't get their way.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/19/2023 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4  12P/Pons-Brooks to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/19/2023 11:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Put them on an island where there is no electricity or running water and leave them there for a while fending for themselves. Then watch them drool when a motor boat pulls up with a propane stove grilling hamburgers.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/19/2023 12:49 Comments || Top||

#6  I see a pay per tour opportunity there.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2023 15:57 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Shell shock: Woman on first date slurps down 48 oysters, then her date lies about going to restroom
[FOX NEWS via WND) -- A woman went viral on TikTok for what some consider overindulging on a first date.

TikTok user EquanaB (@equanaaa) posted a video last week recounting a recent date she went on at Fontaine’s Oyster Bar in Atlanta.

EquanaB admitted in the video that she agreed to meet her date for a drink after he had been texting her for "weeks."

WARNING: Video contains some foul language.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2023 03:46 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seems like a pretty good first date.
The 'slurping' is a telltale behavior.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 5:02 Comments || Top||

#2  More like Equine. Gonna guess 5'6" and 200+; inaccurate photo avatar.

Nah Skid, she was expecting him to foot the bill. "Good thing I remembered to bring money." or such shit.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2023 8:19 Comments || Top||

#3  It really was a brave man who ate the first one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2023 8:29 Comments || Top||

#4  You ARE talking about oysters, B,...right?
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/19/2023 9:04 Comments || Top||

#5  TikTok user @tammysimmone commented that the "slurping alone" would have made her leave.

"I could barely LISTEN to you slurping, so I can imagine how bad it was to actually watch it," said another user, @warriormami6792.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/19/2023 9:30 Comments || Top||

#6  "Well, I won't need these..."

James Bond, pushing plate of oysters away on his faux honeymoon, You Only Live Twice
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/19/2023 9:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Re #2. A horse eating oysters. Wes Craven smiles...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/19/2023 9:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Ref #4: Can't remember the movie off hand.....

"What would you like?" Well darling, you know what I like."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2023 10:00 Comments || Top||

#9  O Oysters,' said the Carpenter,
You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?'
But answer came there none —
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one."
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/19/2023 10:31 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ ;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 10/19/2023 10:56 Comments || Top||

#11  "This is the women's restroom, what you doing in here man!"

"Shhhh....what's the name of the drink I can order from the bartender when I need help?"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2023 12:30 Comments || Top||

#12  Wasn't he supposed to be doing the oysters?
Posted by: KBK || 10/19/2023 21:59 Comments || Top||


I don't know if this is just leftards or epic level trolling

Perhaps a couple rooftops?
Posted by: Ulomorong Croting3271 || 10/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [18 views] Top|| File under:


#2  The thing you have to understand about the LGBTQ crowd is, they're stupid. Obvious things don't seem to make an impression on them. Unless it's a hammer.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/19/2023 9:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Either way it is a classic. Maybe we should fund LTBTXYZ.... tours in the Gaza, Iran, and Egypt!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/19/2023 11:13 Comments || Top||

#4  The headline says it all. Cannot tell satire from reality these days. I honestly don't know how the Babylon Bee stays in business.
Posted by: Tom || 10/19/2023 14:12 Comments || Top||

#5  [bearhugs Herb... like a brother, rainbow fro wig notwithstanding]
Posted by: Shirley Q Smith7033 || 10/19/2023 14:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Palestine, come for the come for the queer scene, stay because you were murdered.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/19/2023 20:02 Comments || Top||


Mortuary worker in hot water after he ends up with dead man's sex doll: cops
[FoxNews] Ryan Smith, 41, faces charges in Sarpy County, Nebraska after allegedly tampering with a dead man's life-sized sex doll afger going back to the man’s house.
Ick.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, at least he didn't "tamper" with the dead man.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/19/2023 2:59 Comments || Top||

#2  This story is actually so much better than it might have been.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/19/2023 9:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Well see, now I was curious about the doll who drove one man to an early death, then tempted his associate.

It is worth visiting the comments.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2023 12:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Just comforting the widow.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/19/2023 19:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Hunter Bidenesque?
Posted by: Frank G || 10/19/2023 20:07 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Doomsday prepping goes mainstream: 'Bug out bags' fly off shelves as a third of Americans admit to buying survival kits amid Armageddon fears
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Finder surveyed 2,179 people who said they spent on average $149 on prepping between April 2022 and April 2023

  • One third of Americans bought prepper supplies like food, water, toilet paper and survival kits at a cost of $11 billion in that period

  • Finder said 40 percent of Gen Z said they spent money on doomsday supplies, just beating millennials at 39 percent
Lockdowns, power outages, tornadoes, floods, snowed in, unemployment... it’s simply sensible to keep a stash on hand. Rantburg’s own swksvolFF has regularly written on the subject for us, and I can highly recommend Check Your Connections: How to Thrive in an Uncertain World, which goes well beyond canned goods in thinking about building resilience in an uncertain world.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, $149 will buy a tank of gas, a roll of donuts and some sodas.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Growing Domestic Terror Concerns – Be Prepared, Not Afraid
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Then there's this.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 19:36 Comments || Top||


'Devil' comet 3 times bigger than Mount Everest explodes, now heading toward Earth
[NYPOST] As if things didn’t seem apocalyptic enough already, scientists reported that a "horned" comet three times bigger than Mount Everest went kaboom! and is hurtling toward Earth.

The blast originated on Oct. 5 from 12P/Pons-Brooks a cryovolcanic — or cold volcano — comet that measures a colossal 18.6 miles in diameter, or the size of a small city, Live Science reported.
"approximately 4,289 full size refrigerators - the side-by-side ones"
For reference, Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, is 29,029 feet high — or about 5.5 miles.

This marked the second time this interstellar ice cube erupted in the last four months, with the last celestial event occurring in July, the Science Times reported.

The British Astronomical Association, which is closely monitoring 12P, caught wise to this explosion after noticing that it appeared dozens of times brighter due to the light reflected by its coma — the cloud of gas surrounding its center.

For the uninitiated, such eruptions occur when a large level of gas and ice amasses and combusts like a frozen Coke can, causing the comet’s frosty insides to burst out of large cracks that form in the nucleus crust.

In this instance, the arctic blast caused the coma to sprout "horns" like some sort of intergalactic Beelzebub, as seen in accompanying photos.

Scientists also compared the satanic shape to the Millennium Falcon spaceship from "Star Wars," Space Weather Archive reported.

Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anybody watch Don't Look Up? That's exactly what I expect from world leaders in case this kind of thing happened.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/19/2023 1:28 Comments || Top||

#2  What they call cryovolcanic eruptions are just retrorockets adjusting course…
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/19/2023 1:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Battleship
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 5:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Deflection for something or time to stock up?

Time will tell.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/19/2023 7:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Already are Dron, starting with this article. Though, the movie gives a bit too much credit intelligence wise to its main characters.

For The Uninitiated.
What smug, New York Post known for its excellence in astronomy, even though it uses 'intergalactic' and can't get peoples' pronouns scientifically/biologically correct. "Oooh oooh it looks like that thing in the moving pictures box!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2023 8:09 Comments || Top||

#6  We're making progress. Now we have belching comets.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/19/2023 9:21 Comments || Top||

#7  "Twelve million pounds of parts made by the lowest bidder!"

- Rockhound (Gary Buscemi) Armageddon
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/19/2023 9:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Think that was comet Swalwell.
Posted by: Warthog || 10/19/2023 9:31 Comments || Top||

#9  SMOD 2024!!
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/19/2023 16:24 Comments || Top||

#10  A big comet the size of a big comet.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 10/19/2023 19:42 Comments || Top||

#11  A comet the size of Stacey Abrams took out the dinosaurs.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/19/2023 20:26 Comments || Top||

#12  "Caught wise"? Now that's some argot.
Posted by: KBK || 10/19/2023 22:03 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Moment exonerated man Leonard Allan Cure is shot dead by a Georgia cop during a traffic stop in shocking new footage
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Leonard Allan Cure was shot dead Monday after attacking cop on the highway in Camden County

  • The cop shot him once then called for back-up, sobbing when he realized Cure had died

  • Cure's family say he was murdered and that the cop used excessive force
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2023 06:04 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As was pointed out yesterday.
He was NEVER found innocent. His sentence was adjusted to time served, all of which happen under the "NEW" Normal Social Justice pressure during the BLM Riots and Looting and B 💩 S.

Also the provided pictures show CURE was argumentative, failing/refusing to comply with lawful orders, shows after being taken to the back of the truck at STUN GUN warning, he suddenly turned, and engaged the deputy in a physical assault and altercation.

With this said and history showing us too many police officers engaged in physical fights with suspects for arrest usually end up shot with their own weapon.

I lean to a Justified shooting, until Forensic (Drugs tests and etc) facts might prove otherwise.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/19/2023 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Daily Mail with another misleading headline to push agenda and clicks.

Dude was not dressed like he was late for work. Deputy likely saved a car wreck.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2023 8:39 Comments || Top||

#3  The guy was trying to strangle the officer AFTER being tased. Totally justified and a service to the community.
Posted by: Chris || 10/19/2023 11:38 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Twitter user gets prison time over anti-Hillary election memes
[WND] Douglass Mackey, who ran a Twitter account with over 58,000 followers, was sentenced to seven months in prison Wednesday for a meme he shared on social media during the 2016 election, according to Courthouse News.

Mackey was convicted by a jury in March of conspiring to deprive others of their right to vote, which carried a potential sentence of up to 10 years. The meme that led to his conviction was a fake flier encouraging Clinton supporters to vote from home via text message.

Prosecutors said that Mackey also belonged to private Twitter direct-message groups where he "coordinated" dissemination of misinformation "intended variously to provoke, mislead, and, in some cases, deceive voters in the 2016 presidential election" with others, according to the sentencing memo.

"Mackey has been found guilty by a jury of his peers of attempting to deprive individuals from exercising their sacred right to vote for the candidate of their choice in the 2016 Presidential Election," United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace said after Mackey’s conviction in March. "Today’s verdict proves that the defendant’s fraudulent actions crossed a line into criminality and flatly rejects his cynical attempt to use the constitutional right of free speech as a shield for his scheme to subvert the ballot box and suppress the vote."

First Amendment experts raised concerns earlier this year that the law used to convict Mackey could also be used to target any allegedly false statements about political or election related issues.

"It criminalizes conspiring to ’injure’ or ’oppress’ someone in the exercise of any constitutional right," Aaron Terr, director of Public Advocacy for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in April. "If that vague language covers speech that deceives people into voting improperly, it raises the troubling possibility of the government also applying it to allegedly false statements about political issues or candidates that discourage people from voting, not just misrepresentations about the logistics of exercising the franchise."
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#1  Land of the Free.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/19/2023 4:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Compare and contrast

Here Are the Media Outlets That Uncritically Regurgitated Hamas Propaganda
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 10/19/2023 4:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Corporate media do this all time.

"Today’s verdict proves that the defendant’s fraudulent actions crossed a line into criminality and flatly rejects his cynical attempt to use the constitutional right of free speech as a shield for his scheme to subvert the ballot box and suppress the vote."

You mean like when the media reported all polls closed in Florida but left out the fact that those in the Panhandle and Central Time Zone had not?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/19/2023 8:08 Comments || Top||

#4  You mean like when the media reported all polls closed in Florida but left out the fact that those in the Panhandle and Central Time Zone had not?

I'd have to do some digging to confirm but that's been done on a number of Presidential elections, going back decades.
Posted by: Raj || 10/19/2023 11:51 Comments || Top||

#5  "And Arizona goes for Joe Biden!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2023 13:21 Comments || Top||

#6  All the DC courts should be eliminated.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/19/2023 19:47 Comments || Top||

#7  I would expect a SCOTUS reversal - it would be shocking if not. But it should not have to come to that!
Posted by: KBK || 10/19/2023 21:57 Comments || Top||



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