The West Hollywood mayor @JohnEricksonWH says his favorite part of the risqué Pride event through his part of Los Angeles is the children. Read: https://t.co/hjJK3i1QMB
[FoxNews] Many elections are marked by reports of dead people voting, but a dead person being elected is far less common. Yet that’s exactly what happened Tuesday when Rep. Donald Payne Jr. won a primary in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District.
The beloved congressman and member of the Congressional Black Caucus suffered a fatal heart attack April 24, according to the New York Post.
The filing deadline for primary campaigns in New Jersey was in March. Congressman Payne was the only candidate to register.
It isn't surprising Payne Jr. was not challenged in the primary. He had held the seat since 2012, and his father occupied it for 20 years prior to that. Payne Jr. succeeded his father when the elder Payne also died in office.
The Garden State’s election rules dictate that Payne cannot be replaced on the ballot. Instead, a special primary election will be held July 16. Nearly a dozen Democrats have already made it known to party leaders that they intend to vie for the seat.
New Jersey’s 10th district is one of the bluest in the country, with a whopping 6-1 Democratic registration advantage. It includes Newark and other urban areas of Hudson, Union and Essex counties and hasn’t been represented by a Republican since 1946.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …which saved his own life amid PTSD struggle: 'It's a poor decision'
Rep. Morgan Luttrell, R-Texas, said the FDA panel's decision was 'a poor choice'
The former Navy SEAL has credited psychedelic therapy with saving his life
Rep. Morgan Luttrell, R-Texas, has credited psychedelic drugs he was able to take in Mexico with saving his life and marriage after experiencing the true atrocity of war through multiple brutal combat deployments.
'This was a poor decision and a step in the wrong direction,' Luttrell told DailyMail.com in an exclusive statement about the FDA's determination.
'I've traveled the country studying and researching these emerging therapies, and I have personally experienced the groundbreaking effects they can have,' the former Navy SEAL continued.
'I will never stop advocating for innovative solutions for our veterans and service members,' Luttrell said.
After serving as a SEAL for 14 years, he medically retired in 2014 to seek treatment for mental health issues that came as a result of his service.
He argues that for veterans who suffer from war-induced mental issues, PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBIs), sometimes there are no other options besides psychedelics.
After himself suffering a TBI and spinal cord injury in a 2009 helicopter crash, he has been working to make available the treatments which aided him to other veterans.
'The effects of emerging therapies for our veterans have been groundbreaking, and I'm proud to be a leader on pushing forward this innovative tool into the proverbial toolbox, especially while moving away from opioids,' Luttrell told DailyMail.com previously.
'As the FDA is finally playing ball to move towards approving these therapies, it's critical we ensure the VA has an implementation plan and can effectively and efficiently treat veterans,' he continued.
The FDA's decision does not stop the drug from becoming an approved therapy - that decision is expected in August - but it will surely influence the agency's determination.
The agency found that there were inconsistencies in data across MDMA for PTSD studies, leading to further questions about its efficacy.
They also found that MDMA poses drug risks such as abuse, injury and potential heart problems.
Notably, the FDA panel said the studies were not diverse enough.
Many of the studies they reviewed involved white males and only five black males were given MDMA in the tests, the Associated Press reports.
'The fact that this study has so many white participants is problematic because I don't want something to roll out that only helps this one group,' the panel's patient representative Elizabeth Joniak-Grant said.
Dr. Rajesh Narendran, who chaired the FDA advisory panel, said he was 'not convinced at all that this drug is effective based on the data I saw.'
Earlier this week, Reps. Jack Bergman, R-Mich., and Lou Correa, D-Calif., the co-chairs of the Psychedelics Advancing Therapies (PATH) Caucus, celebrated the inclusion of two psychotherapy-related amendments being included in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) appropriations bills.
Those amendments would fund VA's research into the therapies to treat PTSD, addiction and other mental health issues.
[Federalist] In response to Americans’ outcry over the political prosecutions of Donald Trump and a Manhattan jury convicting the former president on 34 felony counts, President Joe Biden declared, "It’s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged, just because they don’t like the verdict." Coming from the Commander-in-Rigging, this proclamation means nothing.
Biden and those seeking to ensure his re-election have their hands all over Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of the former president. A lead prosecutor for Bragg during the trial was Matthew Colangelo. In December 2022, Colangelo left the Biden Department of Justice to "jump start" the criminal case against Trump. Biden had previously named Colangelo his acting associate attorney general—the third-highest-ranking official in the DOJ.
There’s Plenty More Where That Came From
Colangelo’s role in prosecuting his former boss’s political opponent provides the most obvious evidence of the Biden administration’s involvement in the Manhattan D.A.’s criminal targeting of Trump, but the rigging started much earlier. As I previously reported, the incestuous relationship between the Manhattan D.A.’s office and Team Biden began as early as mid-February 2021. Then, "Bragg’s predecessor, District Attorney Cyrus Vance, arranged for private criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor Mark Pomerantz to be a special assistant district attorney for the Manhattan D.A.’s office."
As The New York Times reported at the time, Pomerantz was to work "solely on the Trump investigation" during a temporary leave of absence from his law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison. "But even before being sworn in as a special assistant to the Manhattan D.A., Pomerantz had reportedly ’been helping with the case informally for months.’" Even Democrats’ most reliable Old Grey Lady (of the evening) acknowledged, "the hiring of an outsider is a highly unusual move for a prosecutor’s office."
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Joe is senile. Those aren’t even his fingerprints on the adhesive tabs of his Depends. The fingerprints on the Trump prosecutions are from Obama. The deal where they did moving the number 3 guy in the DOJ into the driver’s seat of the prosecution is like mugging for the surveillance camera at a bank robbery.
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They whisper about his senility. We seem to pay a bunch of whispers but actually they pay themselves with our money.
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A lead prosecutor for Bragg during the trial was Matthew Colangelo. In December 2022, Colangelo left the Biden Department of Justice to "jump start" the criminal case against Trump. Biden had previously named Colangelo his acting associate attorney general—the third-highest-ranking official in the DOJ.
So you thought Bragg was smart enough to pull a stunt like this?
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[Federalist] Attorney General Merrick Garland’s presence at a House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday was marked by lies, obfuscations, and repeated denials that the Department of Justice under President Joe Biden weaponized itself against Americans including former President Donald Trump. Instead of fessing up to the partisan games Americans know Garland and his bureaucrat subordinates are playing, the Democrat appointee opted to play the victim.
The dominant narrative touted by corporate media going into Tuesday’s House Judiciary hearing was that Garland would use the time to "push back on Republican attacks."
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It's a behavior supported by the institution. It and the FBI need to be purged of anything above a GS-13. They long ago forgot their oath of office and believe themselves the rulers of people.
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Garland and a corrupt, weaponized Justice department are at the root of much of our judicial problems. They seek to destroy Trump and the Constitution at every turn.
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If Trump is imprisoned and cannot be sworn in in January (if actually elected), what happens? We could be approaching a Constitutional crisis. Will the corrupt congress pass some sort of special presidential term extension? Will they simply set the election results aside? Will the 'will of the American people' be totally undone ?
Meanwhile the "Supreme Court" sits on overstuffed walnut swivel chairs with their thumbs up their arses, totally ignoring the Alvin Bragg and DoJ Manhattan circus and obvious travesty of justice.
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Is there any Constitutional provision against being sworn in via Zoom call? I don’t see a prohibition. He can deliver his speech from the stainless steel throne. It will be awesome.
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[Red State] Dr. Deborah Birx, the scarf-wearing former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under Donald Trump, finally admitted what we’ve all known for a long time: the "experts" tried to quash the idea the COVID virus came from a Chinese lab, and they moved to discredit and humiliate anyone who said otherwise.
In a CNN interview Tuesday, she said the country is still suffering from the blatant censorship:
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Pompeo and all the misleaders need to not be back for round two. The Covid Crew needs jail cells. They killed people.
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Not all of them have had their 'eyes opened' - Dr. Anthony Fauci cited a study that found Americans who did not get vaccinated, for a number of reasons, were likely responsible for an additional 200,000 to 300,000 deaths in the U.S.
And - "Whereas the duration of protection against severe disease, hospitalization and deaths, was more prolonged."
Where's the 'science' for that, Doc?
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Don't forget.....one of the things we learned was a large percentage of the VAX'd were walking spreaders also.
[Washington Examiner] A year after federal courts forced the company formerly known as Twitter to hand over data to special counsel Jack Smith pertaining to former President Donald Trump’s account, the company is asking the Supreme Court to prevent a similar reoccurrence.
X Corp. is asking the justices whether social media platforms can be forced to share data about their users with the government while being disabled from informing those users about the requests.
The company shared information when Smith asked for Trump’s social media account data without the latter’s knowledge. X, owned by Elon Musk, tried to delay Smith from obtaining the data initially, but its bid failed.
The federal judge presiding over that case wondered whether the company was trying to "cozy up" to the former president — allegations that Musk has faced before. Musk recently used similar Trump-supporting rhetoric as many Republicans, insinuating his felony conviction in his New York trial was "motivated by politics."
Trump was reportedly weighing an advisory role for Musk if he wins back the White House, but Musk quashed the rumors, saying, "There have not been any discussions of a role for me in a potential Trump Presidency."
X Corp.’s issue is not disputing the government’s power to have Trump’s records — the government could’ve pulled his social media records from the National Archives and Records Administration — but rather the fact that doing so would’ve notified Trump and potentially risked the investigation.
[FoxNews] New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that she would stop the planned June 30 roll out of a congestion pricing program, reportedly due to concerns about backlash at the voting booth.
"My commitment to a greener, more sustainable future is unwavering," Hochul said at a press conference Wednesday, announcing that she directed the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to "indefinitely pause" the congestion pricing program. "I have been more committed to combatting climate change and protecting our environment than any governor in our history."
"We will continue to find strategies to address congestion, and we will continue to find solutions that benefit both our planet and our people," Hochul said. "This decision is about doing what’s right for the people who make our city thrive. It’s about standing up for the hardworking men and women who get up every single day, do their jobs and just want a fair shake. The little guy who feels like no one listens to them. I’m here to say, we are listening. This decision is about you. And to those cynics who question my motivation, I approach every decision through one lens: what is best for New Yorkers."
The stated goal of congestion pricing in the Big Apple is to get greener by improving air quality and reducing traffic, but Hochul is reportedly more concerned that what's billed as an environmental policy could hurt Democrats in this year's tight races.
A source familiar with the matter earlier told Politico that Hochul is responding to concerns brought by House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who is vying to flip the House back blue come November.
The GOP managed to reclaim a thin majority in the House two years ago largely due to several key Republican congressional victories in New York.
The first-in-the-nation congestion pricing plan was to take effect as New York City transit ridership has taken a nosedive due to public safety concerns. It had received serious blowback from New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, former President Donald Trump and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
In a bid to seize power in the U.S. House once more, the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity with Politico, said senior-level Hochul officials and staffers for Jeffries recently began floating the idea of delaying the congestion plan, which was projected to bring in $1 billion in revenue per year for the public transportation system.
The move preemptively drew criticism from activists.
"Pumping the brakes on congestion pricing would be a massive betrayal of several million public transit riders," Danny Pearlstein, the policy and communications director at Riders Alliance, which has spent years pushing for congestion pricing, told the New York Times. "It would also mean taking cues from the likes of Phil Murphy, Andrew Cuomo and Donald Trump."
MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber warned in an interview with WABC-TV last month that there was "no Plan B" to raise the billions of dollars in funds the transportation authority needs for construction priorities – including making subway stations more accessible and buying clean electric buses – if a judge rules against the congestion pricing in one of at least eight federal lawsuits challenging the proposed program.
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden said he would help Africa “build back better” in a second term, if reelected, during an interview on Tuesday.
A Time reporter asked Biden, “If you do win in November, Mr. President, with a mandate to continue your approach to foreign policy, what would your goals be in the second term?”
Biden said, in addition to building NATO “both politically and economically,” he is “desperately focused on making sure that we deal with the…what they are calling the south now.”
“There are going to be a billion people in Africa in the next several years. We have to, we have to be a catalyst for change for the benefit, for the, for the better, we have to help them build back better, we have to help them,” he said.
He also said he wanted to build a railroad across the African continent. "I like trains. This will be another Amtrak route"
“There’s so much opportunity in Africa. And we have to work it,” he said.
Biden’s promise comes as Niger and Chad have kicked out or are in the process of kicking out U.S. troops from their countries, as they lean toward Russia and China.
It also comes after the Biden administration spent $320 million of American taxpayer money to build a temporary pier to Gaza that broke apart in less than two weeks. It was then dismantled and is being repaired before it can be reinstalled.
O'Biden and his Liberal puppet masters again prove they have $hit for brains.
Why the recycled "Save Africa" campaign again?
We have $34+ Trillion Dollar debt to solve and almost 1.1 million homeless here in the USA that need attention If it is to play the race card for votes.
Then remember that 38+% of the entire homeless population, here in the USA, are Black-Americans.
Seriously the President of the USA, should be focused on the care and well-being of US Citizens, not Africa?
So, DC Swamp - Get our house in order before spending more US Taxpayer $$$$ to tell others how they should do it.
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“There are going to be a billion people in Africa in the next several years. We have to, we have to be a catalyst for change for the benefit, for the, for the better, we have to help them build back better, we have to help them,” he said.
Proves once again this clueless bastid has no concept of reality.
[Breitbart] The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) is asking Clark County, Nevada, election officials to remove registrants from its voter rolls who are registered to vote at strip clubs, casinos, Harry Reid International Airport, smoke shops, gas stations, and other commercial businesses, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.
On Monday, lawyers with PILF sent a letter — reviewed exclusively by Breitbart News — to Clark County Registrar Lorena Portillo urging her to remove registrants who list commercial real estate as their primary address on their voter registration.
“In our analysis of Nevada’s statewide voter list dated April 9, 2024, we identified numerous addresses listed as residential that appeared to be commercial buildings where no one resides,” PILF lawyers state, asking that a clean-up of Clark County voter rolls be conducted by June 17.
Among the seemingly faulty voter registrations listed by PILF lawyers are those where registrants listed Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club, a 7-Eleven, a Nevada-based gas station, Chavelo’s Mexican Bar and Grill, Harry Reid International Airport, and a Mini Mart and Smoke Shop, among others, as their primary addresses.
Accurate addresses on voter registrations are especially critical in Clark County because election officials mail out ballots to every registered voter to the address listed on their registration — regardless of whether they have requested a ballot or not.
In October 2020, as Breitbart News reported, PILF lawyers released video footage showing various commercial real estate properties that registrants had listed as their primary addresses for voting purposes.
Last month, PILF lawyers filed suit in Washoe County, Nevada, demanding election officials there clean up voter rolls to ensure that registrants with commercial real estate listed as their primary address are corrected or purged.
“For years Nevada election officials have ignored hard evidence of commercial addresses on the voter roll,” PILF President J. Christian Adams said of the lawsuit.
“We are asking the court to force Nevada election officials to investigate and resolve any improper commercial addresses on the voter roll,” Adams said. “Nevada must have accurate voter rolls. Otherwise, some of these liquor stores and tattoo parlors will receive ballots in the mail.”
But, having done consulting work in the LV area in the 90s. There were many US Citizen & yes Illegal s also, that were given accommodations/areas as part of their employment.
So how to ensure Citizens get to vote, and NOT the illegals, is also the problem.
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In my county in Ohio, the election board does discover that there are single apartments at some commercial establishments that have to be resolved from time to time. Resolving the correct way to register homeless folks is an issue as well. They do get to register and vote if they are citizens.
We don’t have a huge number of them in our county, but I have seen evidence of them particularly around Kent State. Under the bridge type stuff not the fraternity block thst looks like skid row.
In Ohio PO Boxes are not valid for voter registration and some law enforcement officers have redacted addresses by law. There are rules to resolve all those issues. The Nevada case seems to be different, but all such cases should be investigated individually. That is fraud prevention not voter suppression. Investigate investigate investigate.
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Clark County is Vegas. Hotel and hospitality workers are unionized = Democrat hub = fraud
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The maids live somewhere. The ones that are citizens can vote. If they are listing union HQ as their residence so that the voting is controlled by the union bosses, then the union bosses need to go to jail. If Antwan is listing the Gold and Silver as his residence because Rick lets him shower and sleep in the back, something needs to be worked out. I don’t care whether Antwan votes Dem or Republican.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
