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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Feel Good Story of the Day: 7-Eleven Customer Shoots Alleged Robber and Getaway Driver
[Breitbart] A 7-Eleven customer in Dania Beach, Florida, shot an alleged robber and his getaway driver Saturday night, killing the getaway driver and holding the alleged thief for police.

The Sun Sentinel reported a 19-year-old allegedly robbed the customer in the parking lot of the business, then went inside and robbed the clerk. When the 19-year-old emerged from inside the 7-Eleven the customer had retrieved a firearm and opened fire, wounding him.

NBC Miami noted that the customer then held the 19-year-old at gunpoint and, while so doing, someone driving a Honda CR-V allegedly tried to run him over.

The customer was able to get out of the path of the CR-V and open fire, fatally wounding the 40-year-old driver.

Police found the CR-V “a few blocks away” at a location where the wounded driver crashed. The driver was a taken to a hospital, where he died.

Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/09/2025 11:08 || Comments || Link || [1790 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It all happened so quickly that a federal district judge couldn't issue an injunction.
Posted by: Matt || 09/09/2025 13:21 Comments || Top||

#2  "Here, hold my beer while I go get my gun."
"OK, I'll just step inside."
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2025 15:37 Comments || Top||

#3  The Getaway driver will not be charged, in this life anyway.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2025 17:40 Comments || Top||

#4  ...the young Padawan lost his mentor.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/09/2025 20:32 Comments || Top||


Justice Sotomayor Throws a Fit After Trump Wins Big on Immigration Stops
[RedState] As RedState reported, the Trump administration scored a big win on Monday, with the Supreme Court staying a lower court ruling barring ICE from conducting immigration stops without probable cause. The original decision, which came from Biden-appointed California District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, was spawned after a series of high-profile raids carried out in Los Angeles.

Slaughter[?]
Rebecca Slaughter, the sole Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission. President Trump fired her. An anti-Trump judge ordered her reinstated. This has nothing to do with the previous paragraph.
and another commissioner, Alvaro Bedoya, both filed suit to challenge their removal. However, in June, Bedoya notified the court he was resigning from his position as FTC commissioner so that he could pursue other (gainful) employment. In July, Judge Loren AliKhan (a Biden appointee) issued an order dismissing Bedoya's claims without prejudice (as moot) and granting summary judgment in favor of Slaughter and enjoining the defendants "from removing Ms. Slaughter from her lawful position as an FTC Commissioner or otherwise interfering with Ms. Slaughter’s right to perform her lawful duties as an FTC Commissioner until the expiration of her term or unless she is lawfully removed by the President for "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office" pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 41."

The administration appealed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and sought a stay of Judge AliKhan's order. While the D.C. Circuit initially entered an administrative (temporary) stay, on September 2, it denied the administration's motion for stay pending appeal and ordered the administrative stay dissolved.

The administration then filed an application for stay with the Supreme Court on September 4, and the court then issued an order administratively staying the case today (Monday).
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2025 03:46 || Comments || Link || [1760 views] Top|| File under:

#1  interfering with Ms. Slaughter’s right to perform her lawful duties as an FTC Commissioner

Oh.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2025 6:44 Comments || Top||

#2  A right to public office doesn’t exist. The office belongs to us. Sotomayer is an activist not a judge.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/09/2025 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Cut the poor dear some slack, folks. Since the latest DEI hire, she's no longer the SCOTUS poster child for incompetence.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/09/2025 8:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, Judge Loren AliKhan

Do I detect a pattern?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 09/09/2025 9:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Watch a fierce Albertosaurus matriarch assert dominance
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2025 9:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong

Put the blame on Maame!
Posted by: SteveS || 09/09/2025 9:31 Comments || Top||

#7  The not very wise latina.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 09/09/2025 9:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Not the poster child for sure. Kameltoe won that last year.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/09/2025 11:32 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ I was thinking of Brown-out Jackson, Darth
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/09/2025 12:17 Comments || Top||

#10  Mercutio the space between their levels of incompetency could be filled with a hydrogen atom.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/09/2025 14:32 Comments || Top||

#11  Pro-tip: if the President cannot dismiss an employee of a federal agency then the agency is extra-constitutional. Notwithstanding Congress' (incorrect) assertions to the contrary, our system makes no provision for "independent" agencies. If it's independent, it's unconstitutional.
Posted by: Heriberto Prince of the Gepids7431 || 09/09/2025 16:52 Comments || Top||


Man Behind the 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' Hoax shot dead
[PJMedia] Dorian Johnson, the man who helped ignite one of the most destructive hoaxes in modern American history, was gunned down on Sunday morning just a short walk from where his notorious lie was born. Johnson was the sidekick to Michael Brown on that fateful day in Ferguson, Mo., back in 2014. Johnson stepped into the spotlight with a tale destined to tear the country apart.

His story of Brown throwing up his hands and crying, "Don’t shoot!" reverberated across the media landscape, sparking riots, police assassinations, and lit the fuse for the radical "Defund the Police" movement. Black Lives Matter used the tragedy to promote the narrative of systemic problems in policing, especially in minority neighborhoods, and it also promoted the idea that social programs could better use the billions of dollars governments spend on law enforcement.

Ferguson became the impetus for the notion that police funding, not criminal behavior, was the real problem. This narrative would grow into a full-blown movement, driving a wedge between public safety and leftist ideology.

It was all based on a lie.


Posted by: DarthVader || 09/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1783 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2025 6:48 Comments || Top||

#2  According to local NEWS sources.
The 1 person taken into custody was released.

The St. Louis County DA Melissa Price Smith said Monday afternoon that the suspect was released after no criminal charges were filed within the 24-hour maximum holding time. She also said the shooting appears to be a domestic incident (B o B) , with a claim of self-defense still being investigated.
Posted by:   || 09/09/2025 6:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Should have kept his hands up.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/09/2025 7:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't be fooled, the anti-police movement was a huge loser for the left. So was backing trannies and the whole "birthing person" thing.
Critical Theory is down but not out. It'll be back.
But without the media to broadcast their Weimar-style degeneracy, Critical Theory won't have the power it had. It's still educating a new generation of kids and I give it a decade until they start setting our cities on fire again.
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 09/09/2025 13:25 Comments || Top||

#5  I give it a decade

Maybe not that long...

Nepal’s prime minister resigned Tuesday after protesters set fire to homes of the country’s top political leaders during violent demonstrations against a ban on social media platforms and government corruption.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2025 15:43 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ except the kids have embrace the choice offered by the internet. They can take the fire hose of lies by the Left, as their prior generations have had to live with, or actually access to alternatives. It appears that many are taking the alternatives.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/09/2025 15:45 Comments || Top||

#7  The boys are taking the alternatives, anyway. The girls are being “good”, obedient to teacherly belief demands.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/09/2025 18:54 Comments || Top||


Friend of Michael Brown Who Launched ''Hands Up Don''t Shoot'' Lie Shot and Killed
[REDSTATE] Eleven years after the death of Ferguson, Missouri, teen Michael Brown sparked national protests over police brutality, the man who accompanied Brown on that fateful day in August of 2014 is dead. Dorian Johnson, 33, was shot and killed around 8:30 a.m. Sunday morning in an apartment complex less than a mile from where the incident between himself and Brown, who were black, and then-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who is white, played out.

According to the Ferguson Police Department, the investigation is still ongoing, and not many details are known about exactly what happened. Police have confirmed that one person is in jug and are asking anyone with information on the case to contact them. There had been early rumors that the incident was an officer-involved shooting. However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
Ferguson PD states that no officers from Ferguson or any other agency were involved.

Dorian Johnson's account of what took place that day in 2014 was sketchy at best. He claimed that he and Brown were walking down the street when Wilson pulled up. After words were exchanged between them, Johnson claimed that Brown was trying to surrender and had his hands up, and Wilson shot him in the back. It sparked the whole "hands up, don't shoot" chant. But in a March 2015 Justice Department report, Johnson's claims were contradicted by other witnesses.

What Dorian Johnson was doing with his life just before being killed is unclear. However,
those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things...
in 2019, The Washington Post pitched up the mother of softball pieces on Johnson. A real sentence from this piece: "His enduring celebrity is a torment." He tells the tale of people recognizing him and either praising him or hounding him. He said he had trouble keeping jobs, quit one job after he thought he was being followed, and was let go from another after a customer allegedly recognized him and created a scene. As of the writing of the 2019 piece, he was an aspiring rap artist.
Posted by: Fred || 09/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1751 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  The female suspect in the shooting of Ferguson activist Dorian Johnson has been released without charges, and authorities are investigating her claim of self-defense.

https://newsone.com/6442927/female-suspect-in-dorian-johnson-shooting-released/


Dorian Johnson is just the latest prominent activist from Ferguson to die at a young age in the last 10 years.

Deandre Joshua, 20, was found in a torched car with a gunshot wound to the head in November 2014. Nearly two years later, 29-year-old Darren Seals was found dead inside a burning car in September 2016, his body riddled with bullets. Police said MarShawn McCarrel, a Ferguson activist originally from Ohio, shot himself on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse in February 2016
Posted by:   || 09/09/2025 13:52 Comments || Top||


Britain
Archaeologists find 317 human skeletons under a store in Britain
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Archaeologists have discovered 317 medieval skeletons under a store in the UK. This was reported on September 7 by Popular Mechanics.

The human remains were discovered at the site of the former Debenhams department store in Gloucester, now being used to build a campus for the University of Gloucester. The excavations were carried out by Cotswold Archaeology, which found a further 83 Roman burials in the area.

In addition to human remains, the burial site contained various artifacts, including a tobacco pipe and fragments of a wine bottle. The finds date back to the late Middle Ages. Dental examinations showed that the deceased had a high-sugar diet during their lifetime.

Since the project began in 2023, archaeologists have discovered numerous traces of the Roman period in Gloucester, including pottery, 83 brick vaults (which were cleared in the mid-1950s), the foundations of a townhouse wall and a road dating back to the second century AD.

Project leader Cliff Bateman called Gloucester an incredibly important place, with archaeologists making discoveries every time they work there. The artefacts will be displayed on the university campus, which is due to be completed in September. There are no plans to display human remains.

Posted by: badanov || 09/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1815 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They were all African proving that England belongs to the Africans /sarc
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/09/2025 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  If they were smoking tobacco and eating sugar, (both from the New World) they would post date the Medieval period by a long way.
Posted by: Knuckles Grundy1702 || 09/09/2025 1:11 Comments || Top||

#3  ...Well, they did stash a King under a car park, so....

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 09/09/2025 6:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Sheesh, some stores would do anything to prevent returns/refunds.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 09/09/2025 9:00 Comments || Top||

#5  They were looking for the customer service counter.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/09/2025 17:00 Comments || Top||


Economy
BLS benchmark adjustment shows -900k (similar to 2024 adjustment)
There will be a lot of news blubs. I linked to the BLS report.

The past 3 years have had similar downward adjustments in the total job count. These have been larger than adjustments before that.

I suspect parts of the problem are the rise of gig work, extended severance and some other issues rather than misfeasance (of course many employers don't respond to surveys on time or don't respond accurately because they don't understand the survey - but these conditions existed before the past few years)
Do these numbers include all the federal workers the Trump administration has let go, mostly as a result of DOGE discoveries, and the state and NGO workers no longer supported by federal grants?
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/09/2025 10:16 || Comments || Link || [1757 views] Top|| File under:

#1  to address the question in blue

- generally the answer is 'no'

the adjustment end point is 31 March 2025 and a lot of Feds left the work forces after that date

-not sure about NGOs but probably the same as the Feds

- State govt employees are a different area and are almost not being eliminated quickly, likewise local government employees

I'm hoping that beginning soon there will be a large decrease in employment at Universities, especially administrators both govt sponsored and private.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/09/2025 12:55 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm hoping that beginning soon there will be a large decrease in employment at Universities, especially administrators both govt sponsored and private.

I wouldn't shed any tears for faculty either.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 09/09/2025 13:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Thank you for answering my questions, Lord Garth. You well uphold the Rantburg tradition of feeding my ‘satiable curiosity. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/09/2025 14:18 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Border Czar Says ICE Will Target More Businesses After Enforcement Operation At Hyundai
[ZERO] The Trump administration has plans to target more businesses with immigration enforcement operations after it carried out one at a Georgia Hyundai plant and detained hundreds of illegal immigrants, border czar Tom Homan said on Sunday.

In an interview with CNN, Homan said that the White House is planning to focus more on companies to see whether any illegal immigrants are working at their worksites.

"We’re going to do more worksite enforcement operations," Homan told the "State of the Union" program, responding to a question about the enforcement operation carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials at the Hyundai battery plant in Ellabell, Georgia, on Sept. 4.

"No one hires an illegal alien out of the goodness of their heart. They hire them because they can work them harder, pay them less, undercut the competition that hires U.S. citizen employees."

He said that such practices drive wages down for American workers.

South Korea’s government has since signaled that it would move to pick up around 300 South Korean nationals who were detained after the operation. U.S. federal agents arrested about 475 workers. The South Korean government has expressed regret about the arrests and the release of the footage showing armored vehicles and ICE operatives shackling and detaining the workers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/09/2025 03:29 || Comments || Link || [1779 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


#2  Let's start holding contractors responsible for the the sub-contractors they utilize.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/09/2025 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Mandate E-Verify. Seize Bar Cheddar.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/09/2025 7:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Employers in prison and the illegals will stop coming.
But they're the top donors to both parties, so look for this to stop soon.
Also Koreans, a top US ally against China, are fucking pissed.
You don't humiliate face cultures like that.
By all means, keep it up if you want the 40k US troops sent home and Korea to buddy up with China. More than they are already.
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 09/09/2025 13:16 Comments || Top||

#5  ^^^I would say that one should be far more discreet about hiring your illegal countrymen when building a plant in the US. The SKors were able to save face by being able to fly these people home without further legal scrutiny and media attention. Huge win for them.
Posted by: Remoteman || 09/09/2025 13:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Holman said his policies weren't about race and it seems he wasn't lying. Maybe he'll hit a BMW factory next.
Posted by: Secret Master || 09/09/2025 16:42 Comments || Top||

#7  The SKors were able to save face by being able to fly these people home without further legal scrutiny and media attention.

And nicer for everyone all around. Can't we all be friends?

In their defense, I can see how the SKors might have gotten the idea that employing illegals in construction was a normal business practice. Maybe it was just a South Korean Nancy Pelosi trying to grab a few quick dollars while the plant gets built.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/09/2025 16:59 Comments || Top||

#8  OR
Korean Executives Admit Their Abuse of the B-1/B-2 Visa Program

The labor smuggling “was a normal practice” and is “deeply rooted in business operations, a source from Korea’s battery industry told the news service. “But this may have to change from now on,” the source said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/09/2025 18:19 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Good find, Skid!

Yes, it’s one of those things that has always been technically illegal but virtually never enforced; at least until this admin,” sniffed Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

Just like fare-jumping, stabbing and mortgage fraud. Technically illegal but rarely enforced. Until now.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/09/2025 18:31 Comments || Top||



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