[FoxNews] The mural's removal came as residents and elected officials complained about the artwork. The office of Mayor Brett Smiley told Fox News that he wanted the artwork taken down, saying that the art is "divisive and does not represent Providence."
"The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is divisive and does not represent Providence," Smiley said in a statement.
He said he continued to "encourage our community to support local artists whose work brings us closer together rather than divide us."
Chairman of the Narragansett Republican Party Anthony D'Ellena created a petition in an effort to keep the mural of Zarutska in Providence.
"This is exactly what Democrats do — they try to erase the memory of their victims and they don't fix their soft-on-crime policies," D'Ellena told WPRI-TV. "They erase the evidence, so no one sees the deadly price of their policies."
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"The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is divisive and does not represent Providence," Smiley said in a statement.
But murals, statues, and deification of George Floyd is OK? Another, let's bury the truth and never solve problems.
[FoxNews] 19-year-old Maximum Wyderski was charged with misdemeanor reckless driving and fleeing officers after the Wednesday incident
People in Chicago rammed into a police cruiser during a teen takeover on Wednesday while onlookers cheered and recorded the incident, video shows.
The Chicago police car was rammed by another vehicle during a teen takeover in the Windy City on Wednesday at around 12:43 a.m., according to Fox Chicago. A group of people could be seen surrounding the two cars and jumping on the police cruiser while it was being pushed backward.
Maximus Wyderski, 19, was charged with misdemeanor reckless driving, fleeing/attempting to elude officers in addition to nine vehicle citations.
Wyderski told Fox News Digital he was watching the street takeover, not participating, when his car's battery died. While trying to wave down police for help, he said an officer accused him of being involved. He denied being the driver of the car seen ramming a police vehicle.
"The second cop, he pulls right behind me, gets out of his car, and tells me to ‘get the f--- out,’ put my hands up, and then he arrests me. And then he said that I was a part of an alleged street takeover and then charged me with all that," Wyderski said.
A second street takeover happened on Friday night in the city's Hegewisch neighborhood, according to Alderman Peter Chico.
During that street takeover, masked individuals were seen banging on a Chicago police cruiser and preventing it from moving. It's unclear if any arrests were made.
Alderman Raymond Lopez said everyone associated with the street takeovers should be arrested, and he thinks it's concerning only one person was caught.
"I'm very much concerned only one person was arrested, in a sea of stupidity we only caught one criminal fish, I find that hard to believe because everyone there is breaking the law," Lopez said. "Everyone there is contributing to the minors there who are breaking the law and all of them are putting each other's lives at risk."
"Nobody should be killed just going about their daily business because of a street take over, because someone wants to become TikTok, Instagram famous," he said.
Illinois State Comptroller Susan Mendoza criticized Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, saying on X "if you won't lead, get out of the way and let the police do their jobs."
"CPD deserves better. This brazen attack on our @Chicago_Police officers calls for license revocation, car impounding, arrests, maximum fines — actual consequences," Mendoza said.
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^ Yep
"You know that feeling you get when everything just seems a bit off? A combination of factors that triggers a sense of caution? We've been feeling that since the start of the year.
It feels like The Summer of the Assholes is upon us.
Anyone else getting that vibe? "
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#5
I'm glad I don't live in a major city. The mobs/protesters/whatever you want to call them have been smart so far, on the large part, about restricting their activities to the cities.
It might be wise to make sure there is enough food & water* for a least a couple of weeks. Also enough ammo for those of you that own icky guns.
*The water heater is a useful source of clean water in the case of an emergency.
#8
Put a wall and guards around these areas and throw in all the food, weapons and drugs they want. Nature will take its course and the place will available to be reinhabited in a decade or so.
[FoxNews] Lewinsky, 52, acknowledged her "extraordinary" life progression as she was welcomed into a room full of "positivity and love" at The Beverly Hills Hotel — a stark contrast from decades of experiencing "extreme negativity."
"There have been some very dark moments. I don't want to sugar coat it," Lewinsky said in conversation with Jane Buckingham while being honored as the 2026 Woman of the 21st Century by the Women's Guild Cedars-Sinai.
What on earth did she do to be thought the woman of the century?
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Imagine being her and doing what she did. At work.
Much less in a federal building.
With the president!
Any of us would be in prison, fired and unemployable. If she hadn't kept that semen-stained dress, the cover-up would have worked and Bill would have gotten away with it.
#5
She was probably one of many Epstein-like blackmail vehicles of powerful people. Even Epstein had Clinton in the blue dress portrait as a hunting trophy in his entry parlor. Chuckles galore as guests entered his residence.
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[Regnum] Four members of the British government have resigned, demanding the resignation of Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This was reported on May 12 by The Guardian. Good.
"This morning, I submitted my resignation to the Prime Minister. I call on the Prime Minister to do what is right in the interests of the country and the party and establish a timetable for an orderly transition of power," the newspaper quoted Minister of Decentralization, Faith, and Community Affairs Miatta Fahnbulleh as saying.
Health Minister Zubir Ahmed, Deputy Home Secretary Jess Phillips, and Minister for Victim Support and Violence Against Women Alex Davis-Jones also resigned from their posts.
However, out of a total of 650 members of Parliament, 111 have expressed full solidarity with Starmer's policies. The prime minister's supporters believe that, in the current situation, a leadership battle within the party is untimely and could destabilize the country.
On May 7, elections were held in Britain for 136 local councils, as well as for the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Legislature. The elections ended in defeat for the ruling Labour Party, led by Starmer. Labour won only 1,068 seats, a 50% reduction in its share. The Reform Party emerged victorious, securing 1,453 council and parliamentary seats.
Immediately after the election results were announced, more than 30 Labour MPs called on Starmer to resign. MP Catherine West announced she was prepared to stand as a candidate for party leadership if the cabinet failed to take matters into its own hands. On May 10, Starmer told reporters that, despite the election defeat, he intended to remain in power for another 10 years.
Starmer's approval rating fell to 13% in September 2025. Meanwhile, the British prime minister's negative rating (the number of people dissatisfied with his performance) reached 66%, an all-time high.
[Just The News] In the final weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency, FBI agents tied to Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation memorialized anew their belief that President Donald Trump broke the law in contesting the 2020 election and secretly arranged to preserve their evidence until 2030 in memos that raise alarm they could revive their prosecution after Trump leaves office.
The FBI memos and emails closing out the controversial Arctic Frost investigation — obtained by Just the News — show the bureau chose not to relinquish the evidence it gathered after Smith went to court to dismiss charges against Trump, even though that is the normal practice for agents. Instead, they created a preservation order keeping the evidence in FBI custody for two years after Trump's second term ends, claiming it was necessary to do so because of ongoing litigation, the memos show.
FBI emails and memos obtained by Just the News dating back to early 2025 show how the FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors who had been working on the criminal prosecutions aimed at Trump and his allies worked to close the 2020 election-related case against the incoming president, while also seemingly leaving open the door for the criminal case to be revived once Trump leaves office and a Democrat again holds the reins at the Justice Department. He fired '86 47' Comey. Why is their revenge difficult to believe ?
[MSN - Ay Pee] What was OBVIOUSLY a Trump-damage effort
President Donald Trump won’t have to pay an $83 million defamation award to a longtime advice columnist until the U.S. Supreme Court gets a chance to review the case or reject an appeal, according to a court entry Tuesday.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to a request by one of Trump's lawyers that it let the president delay the payment to E. Jean Carroll, though it required that Trump post a $7.4 million bond to cover any additional interest costs, a request Carroll's attorney had made.
The appeals court late last month refused Trump’s request for a rare meeting of the full 2nd Circuit to hear an appeal of a three-judge panel’s affirmance of the January 2024 verdict.
Afterward, Trump attorney Justin D. Smith asked the 2nd Circuit to stay the effect of its decision upholding the award so that Trump would not be forced to pay the judgment before the high court has a chance to consider an appeal.
Smith said last week there was a “fair prospect” that the Supreme Court will find in favor of Trump, who has called Carroll’s claims first made publicly in 2019 that she was sexually attacked by Trump in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in spring 1996 a “made up scam.”
The $83 million award to Carroll, 82, came from a jury that briefly heard Trump testify and observed his animated behavior for several days.
In upholding the verdict, a 2nd Circuit panel wrote last September that Trump continued his attacks against Carroll for at least five years, making them “more extreme and frequent as the trial approached.”
“He also continued these same attacks during the trial itself,” the appeals court said. “In one such statement, issued two days into the trial, Trump proclaimed that he would continue to defame Carroll ‘a thousand times.’ ”
The jury had been instructed to accept the findings of a jury that in May 2023 awarded Carroll $5 million after concluding Trump sexually abused her in the department store and then defamed her after she published her account of it in a 2019 memoir.
Trump is challenging the $83 million award on several grounds, asserting “absolute immunity” for comments he made while president as he disavowed knowing Carroll and attacked her motivations, saying they were politically driven or arose from a desire to promote her memoir.
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Ace of Spades this morning:"Appeals Court Rules That Trump Doesn't Have to Pay Lunatic Fantasist E. Jean Carroll for the "Defamation" of Continuing to Deny This Vicious Fruitloop's Sex Fantasy About Him
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Not only was the original allegation of "rape" insane and ripped off straight from an episode of Law & Order: SVU -- with this lunatic attention-whore unable to even say when the "rape" occurred more specifically than "in the nineties" -- but a subsequent New York jury also decided it was "defamation" when Trump later insisted upon his innocence.
Note that this rule has never been applied to anyone except Donald Trump. Any time a man proclaims his innocence following an adverse court ruling, someone can sue that man for "defamation" for denying his or her story.
And note that every instance of a false claim is a fresh defamation case -- so you can just keep suing an innocent man forever, for saying he's innocent.
This is government-compelled speech of the worst kind: When a partisan jury wrongly finds you culpable, not only do you have to pay the exorbitant penalty they impose on you for partisan bullshit reasons, but you are then compelled by government action to admit the lie of your guilt, forever, anytime someone asks you about it.
An Appeals Court has agreed with Trump that he should not have to pay the insane jackpot $83 million judgment until the Supreme Court rules on this preposterous new Trump-Only Law.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals this week temporarily blocked an $83 million dollar payment that President Donald Trump owed to E. Jean Carroll in her defamation case while the Supreme Court mulls intervening.
The court order granted Trump's request for a stay, provided he increase his bond by nearly $7.5 million.
Carroll, in 2019, accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman's dressing room some time in the 1990s. She brought separate legal claims for defamation over his denials while in office and after leaving.
Separate -- every time he denies this floridly insane woman's preposterous story, it's a fresh defamation claim."
[NYPost] The signatures of two dead Brooklyn voters appeared on a Democratic candidate’s nominating petitions — and now she’s at risk of being kicked off the primary ballot, The Post has learned.
State Assembly candidate Marie Mirville-Shahzada and her slate of Democratic district leaders can get axed from the primaries on Coney Island because a mind-boggling 90% of her 5,258 total signatures have been invalidated by the city Board of Elections.
Some 3,000 people who supposedly signed the petitions — which are required to run for office — lived out of the district or were not registered to vote.
A review of signature petitions by The Post confirmed that at least two signatures are of dead voters while a third signature is from a woman whose family said she wasn’t even in the Big Apple on the day she allegedly put her John Hancock on the form.
Despite records showing both voters would be over 100 years old and that they passed away more than a decade ago, fresh ink was signed last month to support Mirville-Shahzada’s bid to get into the party primary.
And 99-year-old Lucia Gelbfish’s family said she didn’t sign the petition either and that her "blood pressure would go through the roof" if she knew her signature had been used fraudulently.
"I was a little incensed only because years ago you didn’t hear things like this. This is our democracy nowadays. It’s very sad," her daughter, Sharon Gelbfish, told The Post.
Attempts to reach relatives of the dear departed voters were unsuccessful, but Social Security records noted they both passed in 2010.
Mirville-Shahzada now has a meager 479 valid signatures, which is 21 short of the 500 threshold to run for Assembly against fellow Democrat Chris McCreight, the chief of staff to the former left-leaning City Councilman Justin Brannan.
"This is why people lose faith in government, because you have people running for office who are willing to lie and cheat because they can’t compete by following the rules," McCreight said in a statement.
"It’s dead wrong and should not be tolerated when anybody, of any party, does it."
Now, 34 of Mirville-Shahzada’s 479 signatures will also be examined by the Kings County Supreme Court to determine whether there any are forgeries.
Mirville-Shahzada denied that her staff "would have done anything" as they "knocked on every door" and that she would give an "official comment" later but did not respond to any follow-up request for comment.
Sources told The Post she has filed paperwork to challenge in court the BOE’s decision to eliminate the signatures.
"We see signatures get invalidated in races on a regular basis but the fact that 90% of them have been invalidated is just a stunningly high number," said Grace Rauh, executive director of good government group Citizens Union.
"This certainly strikes me as a case that merits additional investigation and some real scrutiny to see what was going on here. It’s bewildering because it’s so vast," Rauh told The Post.
Alex Camarda, senior policy adviser for government watchdog group Reinvent Albany, said a wider investigation should be launched.
"When you look at this collectively with all of these improprieties together, it certainly raises a lot of questions and should be investigated by the Board of Elections," he told The Post.
A BOE spokesperson said the board does not independently conduct investigations into fraudulent claims but did not comment on whether any potential investigation would be referred to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.
Mirville-Shahzada has been an outspoken supporter of the controversial $3 billion Coney Island casino proposal, which the former councilman voted against.
The district, which stretches from Coney Island to Bay Ridge, is currently repped by Republican Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny — who did not face any challenges for the GOP nomination.
Registered Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... outnumber Republicans by a nearly 2-to-1 ratio and registered independents outnumber the roughly 19,000 registered Republicans with 85,000 registered voters in the district.
The Democratic primary will occur on June 23 and the general election will be held on Nov. 3.
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In a better world everyone involved would go to jail. Since that's not going to happen, give them a couple of thousand hours of community service and the largest possible fine.
[Breitbart] While Democrat Amy Acton served as a grants manager at the Columbus Foundation, records show the foundation administered millions of dollars in 2017 and 2018 to organizations involved in abortion services, civil liberties litigation, immigration and refugee services, diversity initiatives, climate activism, and Muslim advocacy.
Acton, who is running against Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio, worked for less than two years as grants manager at the Columbus Foundation, a major 501(c)(3) charitable organization that administers donor funds and distributes grants.
In 2017, the Columbus Foundation administered $272,666 in grants to Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, a nonprofit that provides abortions. In 2018, the foundation administered another $243,951 to the same organization.
The foundation also administered $77,915 in grants to the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio in 2017 and $1,000,000 in 2018. The national ACLU says, “due process and equal protection” apply to every person “regardless of immigration status,” says it works “to strike at the roots of racial injustice,” “champions transgender people’s right to be themselves,” and describes Roe v. Wade as the case that secured “a woman’s right to abortion.”
Another recipient was Food & Water Watch, which received $8,050,000 in grants administered by the Columbus Foundation in 2018. Food & Water Watch says that it “fights for sustainable food, clean water, and a livable climate for all of us” and works to protect people from “corporations and other destructive economic interests that put profit ahead of everything else.” The group also says “people of all races, religions, genders, and sexual orientations deserve fair treatment and equitable opportunities and outcomes.”
The Columbus Foundation also administered grants to the Harmony Project, which received $572,556 in 2017 and $598,500 in 2018. The group says that its mission is “to build a more connected community by breaking down social barriers, bridging community divides, and empowering the voices of the people through arts, education, and volunteer service.”
Besa Community, Inc. received $58,558 in 2017 and $91,500 in 2018. Besa says that it believes “diversity strengthens our community,” adding that its “mission is rooted in the idea that bringing diverse groups of people together drives innovation and change.”
The Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio received $49,150 in 2017 and says its mission is “to empower people and organizations to embrace all forms of diversity and create communities where everyone belongs.”
CAIR Ohio received $50,000 in 2017 and $75,000 in 2018 from grants administered by the Columbus Foundation, according to the provided IRS records. CAIR Ohio says that, “through legal representation, education, media relations, and advocacy,” it works to “empower the American Muslim community and encourage participation in political and social activism.” The group also says it counsels, mediates, and advocates for “Muslims and others who have experienced discrimination, harassment, or hate crimes.”
CAIR later became the subject of state-level designations by Republican governors in Texas and Florida. On November 18, 2025, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations, a move his office said would allow heightened enforcement actions against the organizations and their affiliates in Texas and prohibit them from purchasing or acquiring land in the state. Abbott’s proclamation described CAIR as an Islamist organization and cited the FBI as saying it was founded as a “front group” for “Hamas and its support network” in the United States.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) followed on December 8, 2025, with an executive order designating the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations for the purposes of that order. CAIR-Florida and CAIR National responded by signaling a lawsuit and calling the order “unconstitutional and defamatory” after CAIR had also filed a federal lawsuit against Abbott over his Texas designation.
The Columbus Foundation also administered money to immigrant and refugee assistance groups during Acton’s time there. Community Refugee and Immigration Services received $47,057 in 2017. The group describes its mission as helping “refugees and immigrants reach safety and stability, sustain self-sufficiency, and achieve successful integration into the Central Ohio community.”
Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services (ETSS) Foundation received $5,000 in 2017 and $61,700 in 2018. ETSS says that it “began in 2000 as an outreach organization focused on the Ethiopian refugee and immigrant community.” Twenty years later, it was serving “individuals and families from over 100 countries and cultures” through programs including after-school and summer academic, cultural, and social programs, ESOL, job preparedness and placement, and family and community navigation for health and mental wellness.
The Columbus Foundation also administered $50,000 in 2017 to the Foundation for National Progress, which publishes Mother Jones. InfluenceWatch describes the foundation as a “center-left nonprofit” that “publishes and supports the social-democratic opinion and news magazine Mother Jones” and “supports the development of left-of-center journalists writing for the publication.”
Acton’s record on abortion has also put her at odds with some pro-life activists in Ohio. The Right to Life Action Coalition of Ohio “rescinded its endorsement of DeWine in November 2020 over his appointment of Acton,” according to the Coshocton Tribune. The report also said the coalition criticized DeWine “for allowing abortion clinics to remain open amid the COVID-19 pandemic when the state health department halted elective surgeries and closed many businesses as part of its stay-at-home order.”
Acton has since received support from abortion-rights advocates. In November 2025, EMILY’s List endorsed Acton for Ohio governor, with EMILY’s List President Jessica Mackler saying the group was “excited to endorse Amy and work with her to win this race.”
Also that month, Acton used social media to denounce the Ohio legislature’s passage of a bill requiring middle school and high school students to watch an anti-abortion video.
Breitbart News reached out to Acton’s campaign for comment but did not receive a response.
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FoxNews] 19-year-old Maximum Wyderski was charged with misdemeanor reckless driving and fleeing officers after the Wednesday incident
[FoxNews] Lewinsky, 52, acknowledged her "extraordinary" life progression as she was welcomed into a room full of "positivity and love" at The Beverly Hills Hotel — a stark contrast from decades of experiencing "extreme negativity."
...every time you hear the phrase 
