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‘Official reports are incomplete and rife with error’

Americans can be forgiven for suffering from whiplash regarding law and order.

In recent weeks the Biden administration and many news outlets, including USA Today and The Hill, have touted declines in violent crime statistics to argue that America is becoming a safer place.

“Right now, with 2023 figures and early 2024, the trends are all pointing down, in a positive direction,” Jeff Asher, whose New Orleans-based AH Datalytics is developing his own “Real-Time Crime Index,” told RealClearInvestigations.

Conservative outlets, including City Journal and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, assert that minor declines in headline grabbers like homicides fail to capture what is really happening in the U.S.

From 2017 to 2019, the U.S. had an average of 16,641 homicides a year. In 2021 and 2022, however, the country saw considerably more bloodshed, with an average of more than 22,000 annual homicides. Even if the 2023 number drops slightly, it will still represent a large increase over the recent past, before the pandemic and racial upheaval set in motion in 2020.

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Earlier scolded for ballot-harvesting scheme

An elections official in a major city in the key swing state of Wisconsin who earlier was caught in – and reprimanded for – a ballot-harvesting scheme now has admitted violating election laws, explaining she just didn’t understand them.

It just more evidence of how America’s elections are being warped by political ideologies held by those in positions of election system power.

An investigative report in The Federalist explains that Green Bay City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys, in a response to a court case, admitted “she has not been strictly adhering to the statutory requirements in Wisconsin Statutes.”

But there’s a reason, a court filing charges: “The failure to do so was inadvertent and due to a lack of awareness of the statutory requirements.”

The stunning admission came in response to a complaint from the Public Interest Legal Foundation.

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Senator John Kennedy has weighed in on the ongoing trial in New York, asserting that the proceedings speak volumes about the state of politics in America as posted on hia X account formally Twitter on May 14, 2024.

According to the Louisiana senator, the trial, which has garnered significant attention due to its high-profile nature, sheds more light on the political landscape than it does on the alleged crime itself.

“At its core, this trial is not merely about the charges leveled against the defendant,” Senator Kennedy remarked.

“It’s a stark reflection of the deeply entrenched partisan divide that plagues our nation’s capital and permeates every facet of our society.

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Joe Biden’s personal approval rating is at historic lows; almost all his policies do not poll fifty percent. He is behind Trump in almost all the swing states. And now he lies serially even to sympathetic interviewers. In short, finally Biden has been exposed for what he always was and represented.

Senator and Vice President Joe Biden was always sort of a buffoon. He is by nature a grandstander who handsomely profited from his office while posing as good ole Joe from Scranton.

He is a fabulist who believes that the more animated he misleads and slurs (“semi-fascists” “fat”, “lying dog-faced pony soldier”, “chumps”, “dregs of society”, etc), the more likely he is to get away with it. He is a confessed plagiarist. And he has also invented much of his biography, from would be star, college-scholarship athlete and brilliant law student to semi-truck driver and jailed civil rights activist. His uncle, we are instructed, was eaten by cannibals. Joe assures us that he was the first in his family to go to college.

And he is a racist with a repertory of racial taunts and smears unrivaled among modern politicians (“junkie”, “boy”, “you ain’t black”, “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy”, “put y’all back in chains”, the Corn Pop and golden-leg hairs sagas, the “racial jungle” memes, the strange brag about Delaware as a “slave state” (e.g., “You don’t know my state. My state was a slave state. My state is a border state.”), and his encomia for the old Democratic racists of the Senate from former Klansman Robert Byrd (Biden’s self-described “mentor” and “guide”) to segregationist James Eastland (“never called me boy”).

Biden has always had a mean streak that explains why for years he lied about the tragic, fatal auto accident of his first wife and child, using it to libel the truck driver, who was neither drunk nor culpable but smeared publicly for years by Biden as intoxicated and guilty. For years he ignored the pleas of the trucker’s family to please stop libeling an innocent driver.

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Last week, Peter appeared on This Week in Mining with Jay Martin. Jay and Peter discuss the state of the economy, the government’s assault on sound money, and why the mining sector constitutes a good investment.

Early on in the interview, Peter lays out the dilemma the Federal Reserve will face in the near future:

“Inflation is going to get much stronger as the economy weakens and enters recession… Then the Fed has to choose, and it’s going to be at the point where it’s damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t. But it’s going to have to make a choice, a very unpopular choice. Does it fight inflation, which means much higher rates than the rates we have now (the rates we have now are not high enough)?

Does the Fed hike rates even though there’s a recession and even though the hikes will make this recession worse and potentially cause a massive financial crisis?

…Or will the Fed ignore the inflation problem and try to rescue the economy by creating more inflation?”

As the government continues to grow and encroach on individual liberty, Peter explains what would happen if gold is ever outlawed, as it was in the 1930s:

“There always will be a market. If it’s illegal, then there’s a black market. People sell all kinds of drugs in this country, and they’re not legal. But there are plenty of buyers. It just means the market is underground, and of course, even if it’s illegal in America, that doesn’t mean it’s going to be illegal in every country, so there will be plenty of legal gold markets. If they ever make it illegal to own gold, the one thing you want to own is gold. They’re not going to make it illegal because nobody wants it and the price is really low, right? They’re going to make it illegal because everybody is buying gold and it’s really expensive.”

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While the market remains focused on tomorrow’s CPI print, and to a lesser extent the April retail sales reports, which will both be released at 8:30am on May 15. we should flag another important report that doesn’t typically get a lot of attention: the New York Fed’s Household Debt and Credit Report for 1Q 2024 which was just published, and where the latest data on credit card debt and delinquencies has recently been the most important part of the report.

While we already know that in the latest monthly consumer credit report published by the Fed last week and covering the month of March, total consumer debt hit a record high (despite a sharp slowdown in credit card growth) even as the personal savings rate plunged to an all-time low, hardly a ringing endorsement for the strength of the US consumer…

… today’s report provided more granular details which however did not change the conclusion: the US consumer is getting weaker, and while not in a crisis just yet, will get there soon enough.

As the chart from the NY Fed shows, at the end of the first quarter, US household debt reached a record and more borrowers are struggling to keep up: overall US household debt rose to $17.69 trillion, the NYFed’s Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit revealed. That’s an increase of $184 billion, or 1.1%, from the fourth quarter.

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Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser flew in a donor’s private plane to Augusta, Georgia, on April 13

Democrat Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has faced the ire of critics over the past week for taking a private jet to The Masters golf tournament as violent crime continues to plague her city.

Bowser, who is now dealing with an approval rating in free-fall, traveled with a senior adviser on a jet belonging to Jodie McClean, a real estate executive and donor to the mayor’s campaign, more than 500 miles away to Augusta, Georgia, for the tournament on April 13.

Bowser initially faced criticism for traveling to The Masters at all on the taxpayers’ dime, but once news broke she took a private jet — although the cost was covered by McClean — critics took to social media to express their frustrations.

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President Biden faces mounting outrage as allegations surface regarding the use of taxpayer funds to register Democratic voters. Uncovered documents obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project have reignited outrage over President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting, signed in March 2021.

As reported by The Federalist on Monday, May 13, 2024, the directive, allegedly influenced by the leftist think-tank Demos, aims to boost voter registration and turnout, particularly among minority groups historically aligned with the Democratic Party.

Critics argue that the order, which mandates federal agencies to facilitate voter registration services on their premises, raises concerns about potential coordination between these agencies and left-wing activist groups.

The fear is that such collaboration could unfairly sway the outcome of the 2024 presidential election in favor of President Biden.

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An 18-year-old who allegedly shot 26 rounds into a Washington, DC, neighborhood while shooting at a car with four people in it has been released prior to trial by a self-confessed “woke” judge.

The Daily Mail reported that the 18-year-old, Amonte Moody, allegedly fired the shots from an AR-15 around 2:30 a.m. on April 22, 2024. He was arrested after it was discovered that doorbell camera footage captured his alleged actions.

On Monday, Judge Lloyd U. Nolan Jr. ruled that Moody be released on bail ahead of his trial.

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Calvert County, MD – Deputies from the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Bureau responded on Monday to reports of suspicious activity in the Huntingtown area.

Deputies engaged in a high-speed pursuit, leading to the apprehension of some suspects in the Calvert area.

Following the pursuit into Anne Arundel County, a collision occurred between a fleeing vehicle and a pickup truck, resulting in casualties. The fleeing car’s front-seat passenger, identified as a teenage girl, was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Comedian Jon Stewart called out former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Hunter Biden during a segment on Monday focused on corruption titled, “How Dumb Is You?”

Stewart first took aim at Menendez, and said his alleged crimes were “f—— awful,” adding, “You, sir, are an elected official in America’s most respected legislative body. It’s like a license to print money. You don’t need to break the law so cartoonishly when the legal corruption in the Senate is so f—— lucrative.”

Menendez is accused of accepting bribes from three wealthy businessmen in New Jersey and performing a variety of favors in return, including meddling in criminal investigations and taking actions benefiting the governments of Egypt and Qatar. Stewart also took aim at insider trading in Congress, which the legislative body has yet to vote on.

The comedian described Pelosi as one of the “biggest beneficiaries” of their ability to trade stocks before showing video of the former speaker of the House saying members of Congress should not be banned from trading stocks and should be allowed to participate in the “free market.”

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Jen Psaki is big on truth.

On her first day as President Biden’s White House press secretary, she declared from the podium: “When the president asked me to serve in this role, we talked about the importance of bringing truth and transparency back to the briefing room.”

Biden agreed, saying that same day: “Communicating directly and truthfully to the American people is one of the most important duties of a president.”

It wasn’t the kind of lie that you write by mistake.

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The FBI sidelined dozens of whistleblowers by suspending their security clearances for more than a year, an inspector general’s report released Tuesday found — despite a top bureau official denying the retaliation in closed-door depositions before Congress, according to transcripts reviewed by The Post.

Justice Department watchdog Michael Horowitz revealed in a letter to Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco that the FBI lacks protections for whistleblowers who claim they are being put on ice in retaliation for going to Congress.

The bureau notably did not provide avenues for whistleblowers to retain employment while their clearances were being reviewed, the five-page missive from Horowitz stated.

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Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained documents explaining to noncitizens and illegal aliens how they can register to vote in local DC elections.

A federal judge last year upheld a Washington DC law that allows noncitizens – including illegal aliens – to vote in municipal elections.

US District Judge for the District of Columbia Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee tossed a lawsuit filed by a conservative group challenging the Local Resident Voting Rights Act, passed by the DC Council in October 2022.

The law not only allows non-citizens and illegals to vote, it also permits noncitizens to run for office!

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In the heart of New York City, the legal landscape was about to witness a seismic clash of ideologies. The trial against former President Donald Trump was underway, but amidst the courtroom drama, a new player emerged: Treniss Evans of Condemned USA is once again rising to the occasion to thwart the obviously partisan trial efforts.

With a fervent belief in justice and democracy, Treniss again appears as a citizen challenging the legitimacy of the trial.

Treniss Evans is filing a lawsuit in federal court arguing that the ongoing proceedings are a direct affront to federal election laws and the impartiality of the judiciary, furthermore damaging Evans as a voter and his rights to unfettered elections.

A summons was swiftly issued for District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the prosecutor leading the New York effort, and Judge Juan Merchan, the presiding judge from the Federal Court in the Western District of Texas. Treniss saw them as key figures in what everyone knows to be a partisan crusade against Trump and vowed to hold them accountable.

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It’s becoming clear that adolescent brain is particularly vulnerable to cannabis, especially today’s higher-potency products, which put teens at risk for impaired brain development; mental health issues, including psychosis; and cannabis use disorder (CUD).

That was the message delivered by Yasmin Hurd, PhD, director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai in New York, during a May 6 press briefing at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) 2024 annual meeting.

“We’re actually in historic times in that we now have highly concentrated, highly potent cannabis products that are administered in various routes,” Hurd told reporters.

Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentrations in cannabis products have increased over the years, from around 2%-4% to 15%-24% now, Hurd noted.

The impact of high-potency products and increased risk for CUD and mental health problems, particularly in adolescents, “must be taken seriously, especially in light of the current mental health crisis,” Hurd and colleagues wrote in a commentary on the developmental trajectory of CUD published simultaneously in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

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While the sign is simply a request, (not law) Ocean City clearly claims these locks create an unsafe environment. What do you think?

The ongoing use of the legal system to try to imprison former President Donald Trump is indeed about the upcoming November election, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

The inept spokeswoman for President Joe Biden said the “quiet part out loud” on Tuesday, per a clip shared on X by the RNC Research account.

Jean-Pierre was asked to comment on Trump’s ongoing criminal “hush money” trial in New York.

The public has been told Trump is not being tried in an election year as the only threat to the Democratic Party’s stranglehold on the federal government because of political reasons.

But when Jean-Pierre was asked to comment on the case, she appeared to reveal that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump is actually directly related to the November presidential election and entirely political.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs erroneously disbursed millions of dollars in bonuses to its senior executives, a federal watchdog report found.

No less than $10.8 million was sent out wrongly by the organization as part of hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses distributed to agency employees, according to The Washington Post.

The highest amount paid out erroneously was $106,473, according to the Post. And seven executives received bonuses of $100,000 each, the Post reported.

The Department of Veterans Affairs revealed that it had made the errors in September 2023 and VA Secretary Denis McDonough ordered the executives to repay the money, the Post reported.

However, many who received the bonuses had already spent the money, according to the Post, and others are challenging the order.

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“Trust the science” was always a stupid phrase, deployed by leftist institutions, government and the establishment media to silence opposition to the woke cause of the moment.

Whether it’s to force compliance with the concept of “climate change,” or coerce behavior in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic, the phrase has been a cudgel wielded by the powerful.

It means nothing, seeing as “science” is hardly a monolithic block of infallible knowledge, with scientists constantly disagreeing with each other in the midst of making new discoveries.

But now, with a scourge of false submissions ravaging the academic journal industry, the establishment media’s favorite phrase seemed more farcical than ever.

According to an exclusive report in The Wall Street Journal, one of the largest academic publishers in the world, Hoboken, New Jersey-based Wiley, is being forced to to shut down 19 different journals thanks to the black market industry of “paper mills” submitting thousands of fake papers.

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Three years ago, a major story broke in Canada that seemed to confirm every left-wing prejudice against Christians imaginable: A mass grave containing the remains of indigenous children was supposedly discovered on the grounds of what had once been a government boarding school run by the Catholic Church.

It turns out the whole thing was a hoax, a modern-day blood libel against Christians that ended with at least 85 Catholic churches across Canada destroyed by arson, vandalized, or desecrated. Canadian political and civil society leaders cheered on this destruction — and then doled out hundreds of millions of dollars to investigate the mass graves and create a “support fund” for indigenous people.

To this day, no human remains have been recovered at the site of the alleged mass grave, despite nearly $8 million spent looking for them.

You won’t hear the corporate press report on this story now, but in the summer of 2021, it was everywhere. And no wonder, it had all the elements of a just-so story. The mere historical existence of these former boarding schools, which operated from the 1860s to the 1990s, remains a source of outrage among liberal Canadians. The residential school system, as it was called, often separated indigenous Canadian children from their families and communities, forcing them to attend chronically underfunded government schools, the purpose of which was to assimilate and acculturate indigenous Canadians into European Canadian society.

The history here was bad enough — a racist outrage, as far as Canadian liberals were concerned. But then came news of the mass graves. The Catholic priests and nuns who ran the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia had, it seemed, callously discarded the corpses of hundreds of dead schoolchildren in mass graves on the school grounds. Or so said the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, which claimed that ground-penetrating radar had revealed the remains near the site of the former school.

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SALISBURY — May 17, 2024, marks a significant milestone for our community as we celebrate the grand opening of Unity Square, a vibrant new park designed to be a year-round destination for families and friends to come together and create lasting memories right in Downtown Salisbury. The ribbon cutting will begin at 5:30 p.m. as part of Third Friday’s lively entertainment.

“Unity Square represents a substantial investment in our Downtown, creating a place to gather and enjoy the arts and music as a community,” Mayor Randy Taylor said. “I look forward to seeing you there!”

One of the most exciting aspects of Unity Square is its versatility as an event venue. The park is equipped to be a part of a wide array of events, including Third Fridays and major events like the Maryland Folk Festival. Unity Square’s picturesque and ample space make it the ideal choice for bringing our community together.

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This week will be a fantastic opportunity for people to come see some of the most incredible furniture I’ve located and purchased. So many new items this week, some of which sold while I was unloading it into the store and people passing by saw it, stopped and immediately purchased it. 

If you haven’t been to our store in some time I think you’ll be amazed at the new transformation we’ve delivered. I’m open Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10 to 4 and Sunday 12 to 4. Stop in, say hello and remember we’re only a few miles from Salisbury.

If you are into albums, I brought in around 300 new albums this week. We have thousands in stock.

President Joe Biden’s administration has caused the nation’s foreign-born population to surge to a level never before seen in American history, new analysis details.

Researchers Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler with the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) published the analysis on Monday, showing that from late January 2021, when Biden took office, through March of this year, 6.6 million immigrants have been added to the United States population.

The rise in the foreign-born population under Biden is equivalent to nearly two years of births in the United States and larger than the populations of 33 states.

Today, the foreign-born population stands at 51.6 million — the largest ever recorded in American history. Put another way, about 3 in 19 people living in the United States were born in a foreign country.

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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) is turning a former correctional facility into a temporary shelter to house migrants.

On Friday, residents in Norfolk were informed that the state had plans to convert the Bay State Correctional Center into a “temporary emergency shelter” for migrants, a statement from Norfolk town administrator Justin Casanova-Davis said.

As of 2024, the population of the town of Norfolk was estimated to be 11,676 people.

“The Town was informed on Friday that the decommissioned Bay State Correctional Center has been designated as a temporary emergency shelter by the Healey Administration,” Casanova-Davis’s statement, issued on Monday, said.

Casanova-Davis’s statement continued to say that the decision from the Healey administration had been made as part of the state’s “ongoing response to the number of migrant families arriving in Massachusetts” and that the town “had no role” in making the decision:

By law Massachusetts is a “right to shelter” state. The state must provide adequate living spaces, clean and decent surroundings, pure air and water, sanitation, and other civic amenities to families, pregnant women, and migrant families in an attempt to reduce homelessness.

“Emergency shelters have opened in communities of all sizes across the state,” he continued.

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A woman at the Central California Facility for Women says she witnessed the immediate aftermath of a jailhouse rape by a transgender inmate.

Mimi Le provided a sworn declaration to lawyers with the Women’s Liberation Front, which will be included in the organization’s case against California, according to evidence from the filing obtained by Reduxx.

Le reportedly said she was one of many inmates who saw events involving what was described as a “sexual assault” committed by a man who identifies as a woman and was therefore locked up in a women’s prison.

On May 19, a female inmate was taken to a medical-administrative building after other female inmates reported to staff that she had been raped, Le explained, adding that she found the woman to be “barely conscious.”

Less than an hour later, the female victim was taken away on a stretcher under a “Code 3” alert, which means a person is unresponsive and unable to be revived via immediate methods, Le added.

Le and other inmates reportedly identified the alleged assailant as Jonathan Robertson, a biologically male transgender individual going by the name Siyaah Skylit.

Multiple inmates said they had heard Robertson shouting, “Fuck all you bitches. I’ll rape you. I’ll rape your mama. I’ll fuck all you bitches up — there is nothing you bitches can do.” He has also spit at fellow inmates, the women said.

“This was very triggering and saddening for everybody,” Le reportedly wrote in her declaration. “To be threatened by a man with doing a thing that he can do, that he is capable of doing, that he may already have done to other women, is terrifying.”

“They were concerned and discussed how to protect themselves; I convinced them to just go to their rooms while I asked for an update from the Captain to figure out how to proceed,” Le added.

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(End of the American Dream)—The war in Ukraine has just moved to an entirely new level, but most Americans do not even realize that we are closer to “nuclear Armageddon” than ever.  Very early on the morning of May 10th, Russian forces began to pour across Ukraine’s border north of Kharkiv.  In the short-term this will enable the Russians to create a buffer zone around the Belgorod region and force Ukraine to pull desperately needed forces away from the eastern front.  But eventually I believe that the Russians fully intend to take Kharkiv, and that would be an absolutely devastating blow.

Needless to say, losing Ukraine’s second largest city is not an option for Ukraine’s western backers, and they are determined to do whatever it takes to keep that from happening.

It would be hard to overstate the importance of what we just witnessed.  Russian forces have come across the border in an area that is far away from any other current conflict zone.  UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron says that Russia has basically “invaded [Ukraine] again”…

A Ukrainian regional official insisted Russia’s progress was not yet “significant” but admitted ground fighting in the area was spreading. Meanwhile, speaking on British television, UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron acknowledged it was an “extremely dangerous moment,” adding that Russia had effectively “invaded [Ukraine] again.”

He is right. This move by Russia really is essentially a fresh “invasion”, and it represents the most dramatic offensive that the Russians have undertaken since the early days of the war. According to CBS News, the Russians were able to capture five villages on Saturday and four more on Sunday…

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Brilliant scholar and former Trump attorney John Eastman, traveled to Michigan on Friday night.

Attorney Eastman delivered a powerful speech on lawfare and how it’s being used against President Trump and his supporters. Mr. Eastman addressed a large crowd in Lansing, Michigan, at an event that was hosted by Michigan’s top election integrity group, MI Fair Elections, which was created by the incredible author and patriot extraordinaire Patrice Johnson.

John Eastman described the election fraud in 2020 in great detail during his speech.

The Biden regime and deep state players DO NOT want you to know this.

Attorney John Eastman: Thank you all so much. I start this story when I get a call from the White House switchboard. I thought they were joking. I thought it was a buddy of mine saying, the White of the President is on the line. Can you take a call? I said, Steve, what are you doing? I did a hop-up on the phone. And the President said, “I’d like you to represent me. We’re trying to get an action before the Supreme Court of the United States.”

That normally is something that would be considered the catch stone of one’s career. My daughter thought so. She took the brief we filed in the Supreme Court, my motion to intervene on behalf of the President in the Texas versus Pennsylvania case. She had it framed and gave it to me for Christmas that year. It still adorns my office at home.

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Scores of students at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) staged a walkout during their Saturday morning graduation ceremony as Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin took the podium to deliver a commencement address, The Washington Post reported.

The walkout, which consisted of approximately 100 out of 1,200 students, was a display of support for Palestinians and a demonstration against Youngkin’s stance against racial equity initiatives in schools, according to the Post. Youngkin and Virginia’s colleges and universities, including VCU, are battling over whether tax-payer funding should go toward diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts.

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A new set of polls reveals that Donald Trump is leading President Biden in five out of six critical battleground states, as young and nonwhite voters grow increasingly dissatisfied with the current president.

The surveys, from the New York Times, Siena College and the Philadelphia Inquirer found that Trump is smoking Biden in Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania, while Biden is barely clinging to Wisconsin. The top grievances among disaffected voters are cost of living, immigration, and the war in Gaza, in what the NY Times characterizes as “widespread dissatisfaction with the state of the country and serious doubts about Mr. Biden’s ability to deliver major improvements to American life.”

Nearly 70 percent of voters say that the country’s political and economic systems need major changes — or even to be torn down entirely.

Only a sliver of Mr. Biden’s supporters — just 13 percent — believe that the president would bring major changes in his second term, while even many of those who dislike Mr. Trump grudgingly acknowledge that he would shake up an unsatisfying status quo.

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The economy and the cost of living, however, remain the most important issues for one-quarter of voters — and a significant drag on Mr. Biden’s prospects. More than half of voters still believe that the economy is “poor,” down merely a single percentage point since November despite cooling inflation, an end to rate hikes and significant stock market gains. -NY Times

And the media is freaking out:

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Nuclear energy is effective at scale and produces no emissions, but the technology may not be poised to play a leading role in President Joe Biden’s green agenda.

American policymakers, primarily Democrats and their appointees, are pushing hard to realize the Biden administration’s goal of having the U.S. power sector reach net-zero emissions by 2035, but wind, solar and other renewable generation sources have not yet shown the same degree of reliability that nuclear has demonstrated. Despite these facts, Biden and lawmakers have so far failed to simplify the nuclear regulatory and permitting process, according to energy sector experts who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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Republicans are livid with the Secret Service who are refusing to move the perimeter of the “security zone” at the Republican Convention in Milwaukee further from the Finserv Forum.

The current “free speech zone” for the convention is in Pere Lafayette Park, a mere quarter of a mile from the convention venue. By comparison, the Democrats in Chicago have set up a free speech zone about three miles from the United Center where the convention will be held. There will also be several other “security zones” around the United Center.

Republican officials met with the Secret Service and strongly urged them to move the free speech zone further than a quarter mile from the venue. The agency refused.

The park’s location sets up a gauntlet that convention delegates will have to walk through to get to the venue. While most convention gores will arrive on buses, restricting the movement of delegates and guests because of security concerns is unacceptable, say Republicans.

“We have no information that there will be unrest related to that activity,” one Secret Service official said.

In fact, Milwaukee police are claiming the real danger at the convention is from Republican delegates.

Washington Post:

At the meeting, a Milwaukee police captain also said there were concerns within the community that Republican convention attendees might “terrorize Milwaukee citizens” and “harass minorities.”

“There is fear in the community,” the Milwaukee police official said.

Nick DeSiato, chief of staff for Milwaukee’s City Hall, said that “the captain’s comment reflected feedback from some of our community members.”

The Republicans in the room took umbrage at the comments.

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Former Wall Street money manager Ed Dowd is a skillful financial analyst.  Even though he has a wildly popular book on CV19 vax deaths and injuries called “Cause Unknown,” he is now turning his attention back to the economy.

Dowd warns the economy can fall out of bed at any time.  Dowd explains, “What’s coming up next is a credit cycle…”

“We are going to see commercial real estate go into problem mode.  There are a lot of loans that need to be rolled over in 2024 and 25.  A lot of these properties are down 80%…

There is huge credit risk coming.  The prediction of bank failures is accurate.  We are going to see, over the next 12 to 24 months, banks go belly-up.  Then, they will have to get merged with bigger banks.”

What happens to the Biden economy?  Dowd says,

“The economy is going to take a nosedive sometime in the next 12 months.  The real economy is not doing well…

The only thing that has been holding up the GDP growth is government spending. 

We are spending $1 trillion every 100 days.  That’s adding $1 trillion to the deficit. 

The only job creation is government jobs, and they don’t actually add to the economy…

Reports are coming out now that the low-income consumer is getting absolutely hammered.  McDonald’s talked about it in their most recent earnings call…

So, low-income and the middle-class are getting squeezed while the rich continue to plug along.”

Dowd told me off camera that the economy could get into trouble without warning.  Dowd explains,

“You’ve got to look at history.  In 2008 and 2009, everyone talks about the crisis, but bank failures started showing up in 2007…

I suspect as we roll through time in the real economy and the money supply issues start to hit the economy, we will see more bank failures and more businesses shut down. 

46% of small businesses are having problems paying their rent.   There is going to come a time in the next 6 to 12 months this huge shock that we saw in the 2008 financial crisis, and the 2000 bubble where massive layoffs start to happen–it’s inevitable. 

This is what happens when you crank up interest rates from 0% to 5.5%.  There is a lag in the real economy, and it’s hitting right now.  It’s only going to intensify as time goes on.

Dowd likes gold as a core asset.  He also thinks the dollar has a way to go before it tanks, but it will tank someday.

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In a telling slip of the tongue earlier this week, Joe Biden referred to the unprecedented rise in illegal immigrants entering the US as an “influx” of “Hispanic voters.”

During an interview with a Spanish radio show, Biden was talking about the border crisis, and stated “It’s even a bigger influx now in terms of Hispanic voters, or Hispanic – Hispanic citizens, who want to become citizens.”

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Kamala Harris on Monday delivered remarks at the annual Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) Legislative Leadership Summit in DC.

Per APAICS:

The 2024 APAICS Legislative Leadership Summit brings together nonprofit and corporate leaders, subject matter experts, as well as local, state, and federal elected officials to discuss important issues that affect the Asian American & Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander community and the nation at large.

Past events focused on issues, policies, practices, and trends in the AA & NH/PI community in an environment that facilitates solution-oriented dialogue and building public service pipelines in communities of color.

Kamala Harris dropped an F-bomb on stage and then cackled.

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A week ago, news broke that the US State Department knew COVID was leaked from the Wuhan laboratory, and the Communist Chinese leaders knew this and hid this from the global community.

The US State Department knew in July 2020 that Xi Jinping was hiding this from the global community.

Documents released by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic prove that the State Department knew this but hid this from President Trump, the American people, and the global community.

This past week, The Gateway Pundit reached out to former Trump insiders for more information. The officials were not able to talk about the matter.

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Some records of phone calls related to the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump were deleted from case files, Manhattan District Attorney Office paralegal Jaden Jarmel-Schneider admitted during the trial.

The acknowledgment is important because the defense may not have all of the evidence necessary.

Jarmel-Schneider’s testimony involved a key recording that the prosecution played earlier in the trial. The prosecutors played the recording in order to allegedly show Trump and Cohen speaking about “catch and kill” or hush money payments.

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Brexit leader Nigel Farage has vowed to lead the charge against the “mission creep” of the World Health Organization (WHO), joining a campaign to “take back control” from the globalist institution as it pushes for an international Pandemic Treaty.

Vowing to take on the “billion-dollar global health empire”, Nigel Farage said he has joined the Action on World Health (AWH) campaign group to reduce the scope of the W.H.O., calling for its £5.5 billion budget to be dramatically cut and to fight against the implementation of the controversial pandemic treaty being imposed.

“The W.H.O. is proposing a pandemic treaty that would be legally binding on all 194 member states and is pushing for mandatory lockdowns and vaccinations.  I have joined forces with Action on World Health to fight back,” Mr Farage wrote on social media.

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North Carolina flagship university board of trustees unanimously votes to dismantle its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees reportedly voted on Monday to dismantle its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and transfer millions in funding instead to public safety and campus police on the heels of anti-Israel demonstrations.

The unanimous decision by the trustees will reallocate $2.3 million that the university spends on DEI programs toward police and public safety measures as part of its annual budget approval process, The News & Observer reported.

Last fiscal year, UNC Chapel Hill’s operating budget surpassed $4 billion.

“My personal opinion is that there’s administrative bloat in the university,” Board Chair David Boliek told The News & Observer, anticipating some jobs would be scrapped as a result. “Any cuts in administration and diverting of dollars to rubber-meets-the-road efforts like public safety and teaching is important.”

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Nancy Pelosi might have won the battle, but the war is a different story.

On a trip to England in April, the former House speaker kept up her crusade against former President Donald Trump’s brand of politics by arguing at an Oxford University debate that “populism is a threat to democracy.”

Her side got more votes in the debating hall, but as video of the event circulates, her opponent is getting the word out, and it’s not making Pelosi look good.

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Former President Trump revealed at a large rally on Saturday evening in Wildwood, New Jersey, that if re-elected, he would sign an executive order on his first day in office to address offshore wind development along the East Coast.

Trump told a crowd of thousands that windmills are killing whales and fish. He pointed out that only a small number of whales died before wind farm developments, but now, whales are dying “all the time.”

“We are going to make sure that that ends on day one,” he said, adding, “I’m going to write it out in an executive order.”

Trump has said before, “Windmills are causing whales to die in numbers never seen before.” He made that comment at a campaign rally in South Carolina in 2023.

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The net result is America’s working class is up against the wall, maxed out.

Let’s start by defining the working class in a meaningful way rather than by tossing around meaningless income metrics which implicitly suggest that exceeding some semi-arbitrary income bracket will magically lift a working class household into the middle class.

In the real world, in terms of class status it doesn’t matter whether the household income is $30,000 or $130,000; what matters is 1) ownership of assets that have bubbled higher in the Everything Bubble which then provide a buffer of wealth that can be tapped when misfortune strikes, and 2) a cost of living that is consistently and significantly lower than net income, enabling regular savings.

In other words, a household earning $130,000 that owns negligible assets / wealth buffers and consumes every dollar of income just to service its debts and pay all the other bills is working class, while the household earning $30,000 that owns meaningful assets and frugally gets by on $20,000 a year is middle class. The household that earns $130,000 (generally considered a middle class income) but has a net worth is $2 million, no debt and an annual cost of living of $90,000 is upper middle class.

Income by itself misses what’s truly important: wealth buffers and a lifestyle that leaves surplus income to be consistently saved and invested.

While we focus on the alarming leap in the cost of living over the past three years, we lose focus on the larger issue: America’s working class has been squeezed for decades by the relentless decline in the purchasing power of wages. I explained how to calculate this in We Feel Poorer Because We Are Poorer: Here’s Proof (December 4, 2023).

The devastating decline in the purchasing power of wages since 1975 is beyond dispute. As I noted in the above post: “The status quo cheerleaders in the Ministry of Truth ignore the $5,000 annual cost increases in essentials while trumpeting the $100 decline in occasional discretionary purchases. Your rent costs you 100 more hours of work, but you save $100 on airfare, so it all evens out. Um, no.”

This chart reveals that the decades of hyper-globalization-hyper-financialization transferred trillions of dollars from wage earners to owners of capital. I explained this in Labor Rising: Will Class Identity Finally Matter Again? (May 1, 2024)

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What kind of father was Joe Biden, really?

The establishment media outlets have tried for years to paint him as a loving and caring, almost tragic figure, losing his first wife and baby daughter in a car accident and his son Beau to brain cancer.

But, his wayward son Hunter Biden’s drunken and debauched antics, never mind Daddy Biden’s influence-peddling to enrich his useless son, has long cast doubt about Biden’s parenting skills.

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Angela Alsobrooks wins a contentious and expensive primary against Rep. David Trone

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Republican voters advanced strong Senate contenders in Maryland and West Virginia on Tuesday, giving the GOP a big boost in its push to claim control of Congress’ upper chamber.

Former Gov. Larry Hogan claimed the Republican nomination in what will be a marquee race in Maryland against Angela Alsobrooks, a top local official who could become the fourth Black woman in U.S. history to serve in the Senate.

Meanwhile, another popular Republican, Gov. Jim Justice, won the Senate nomination in deep-red West Virginia, becoming the overwhelming favorite in the race that represents the GOP‘s best pickup opportunity in the nation.

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In an unusual move, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced coffee prices will no longer be factored into the CPI inflation data.

This is another way for the US government to fudge the inflation numbers to help Joe Biden in the middle of a presidential election.

The overwhelming majority of Americans consume coffee every day. According to Drive Research, 73% of Americans drink coffee every day.

This week’s April CPI inflation report will NOT include coffee price inflation.

Coffee prices are exploding which explains why the Biden Regime doesn’t want it factored into the inflation data in the middle of a presidential election.

Inflation is on the rise again this year thanks to Joe Biden’s tax-and-spend policies.

Consumer prices rose 0.4% in February – less energy and food prices. Grocery prices are up 30+%. Gas prices are soaring.

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Joe Biden has been hiding intelligence on the whereabouts of Hamas leaders and their command tunnels, depriving Israel of vital information that could lead to an end to the war. That revelation came in a report on Saturday and was framed as the administration offering that information now if the ongoing operation in Rafah is canceled.

The story first broke in The Washington Post, with the paper describing the offer as follows.

The Biden administration, working urgently to stave off a full-scale Israeli invasion of Rafah, is offering Israel valuable assistance if it holds back, including sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group’s hidden tunnels, according to four people familiar with the U.S. offers.

There’s no other way to read this except that the Biden administration has been protecting Hamas. If intelligence exists that can help “pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders,” it should have been given to Israel the moment it was produced. The same goes for any information about the terror tunnels.

Why was that information held back from Israel? Was the White House trying to appease Iran by ensuring Hamas’ survival? Or was Biden concerned about the domestic backlash from the far left if he had a hand in eliminating Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar?

To only offer this intelligence after Israel called Biden’s bluff on Rafah smacks of political gamesmanship, with the president’s political fortunes being put over the lives of the hostages, including the several Americans still being held captive.

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When people gripe about paying taxes and the government being a poor the absolute worst possible capital allocator, this is what they are talking about: $7.5 billion in investments for electric vehicles has – in two years – produced just 7 charging stations across four states. 

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed by Biden in November 2021, allocated $7.5 billion for EV charging, the Washington Post writes. Of this amount, $5 billion went to states as “formula funding” for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program to establish a network of fast chargers along major highways.

Today, there’s seven chargers with a total of just 38 parking spots. And, come on: when the Post is calling it out, you know the results have been horrible.

The Post added that with the Biden administration’s new emissions rules requiring more electric and hybrid vehicles, the slow pace of charging infrastructure development could hinder the transition to electric cars. Twelve additional states have awarded contracts for charging station construction, while 17 states have yet to issue proposals.

Alexander Laska, deputy director for transportation and innovation at the center-left think tank Third Way, told The Post: “I think a lot of people who are watching this are getting concerned about the timeline.”

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The firm of former Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias has lost another election case in a spectacular fashion. The Chief Judge of the Western District of Wisconsin, James Peterson (an Obama appointee), did not just reject but ridiculed the Elias Law Group challenge to a witness requirement for absentee voting. Elias have been previously sanctioned in court and accused of lying in the Steele dossier scandal by journalists and others.

U.S. District Judge James Peterson ruled against the lawsuit brought by the Elias Law Group, arguing that the witness requirement violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The state statute under § 6.87(2) describes what the witness must certify. The statute first sets forth in two sentences what the voter must certify on the ballot envelope. The first requirement concerns the voter certifying that he or she meets the requirements for voting generally and for voting absentee in Wisconsin.

The second requirement is certification that the voter followed the process for preparing the absentee ballot. These are the called the “first voter certification” and the “witness certification.”

The witness certification refers to a witness certifying “all of the above,” which is obviously referring to the language on preparing the absentee ballot.

Elias argued that it requires certification of everything that preceded it on the details of the voter’s record etc.

In the court’s opinion, Judge Peterson expresses disbelief at the lunacy of the Elias argument, writing:

“Normally, the court would begin by searching for other textual clues in the statute. But in this case, the most obvious problem with plaintiffs’ interpretation is that it simply does not make any sense.”

The court then notes that:

“Under plaintiffs’ interpretation, every witness would have to determine the voter’s age, residence, citizenship, criminal history, whether the voter is unable or unwilling to vote in person, whether the voter has voted at another location or is planning to do so, whether the voter is capable of understanding the objective of the voting process, whether the voter is under a guardianship, and, if so, whether a court has determined that the voter is competent. See Wis. Stat. §§ 6.02 and 6.03. Many witnesses would be unable to independently verify much of the required information. The statute allows any adult U.S. citizen to serve as a witness, suggesting that a wide variety of people should be able to do the job…It makes no sense to interpret § 6.87 in a way that would make compliance virtually impossible.

If plaintiffs’ interpretation were correct, it would mean that countless absentee ballots over decades were invalid because the witness certified that the voter was qualified to vote and met the other requirements in the first voter certification, even though the witness had no basis for such a certification.”

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President Trump is set to deliver remarks to a massive crowd of roughly 80,000 supporters at 5 pm tonight in Wildwood, New Jersey.

Many, including Congressman Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), are calling this the largest political rally in the history of New Jersey.

Doors to the event opened at noon Eastern. At approximately 2 pm, there were thousands still lined up awaiting entry by midafternoon.

By the time the rally started President Trump announced a total of 100,000 supporters at the Wildwood rally tonight!

During his speech, President Trump took the gloves off to lash out at Crooked Joe Biden, the most corrupt and lawless president in history.

Joe Biden stands alone in organizing prosecutors in his administration to bankrupt President Trump and tie him up in courtrooms for weeks at a time. Joe Biden is lawless.

President Donald Trump: You don’t do that to your opponent. You don’t do that to your political opponent. It’s done in third-world countries. It’s done in Banana Republic. It’s not done in the United States of America…

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Nancy Pelosi and her husband took a break from their insider trading to attend a public debate at the Oxford Union in Oxford, England. The Oxford Union is a highly esteemed debating society and is one of Britain’s oldest university unions founded in 1823.

Nancy and Robert Pelosi attended the Oxford Union debate on April 25 on populism hours after she was interrupted by pro-Gaza protesters from Youth Demand who support Gaza militants and want to put an end to fossil fuels.

It was during this debate that Pelosi was finally given the proper public thrashing she deserved by one of Britain’s rising stars, Winston Marshall.

Winston Marshall is a popular writer, musician and podcaster. Marshall was part of the British folk rock group Mumford and Sons where he was lead guitarist and won a Grammy and two Brit Awards. Marshall was forced out of the band after posting a tweet saying journalist Andy Ngo was “brave” for his book which says far-left activists have “radical plans to destroy democracy”.

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The revelation of election rigging emerged as General Counsel Charlene McGowan unveiled crucial details about ballot counting procedures. McGowan’s disclosure shed light on potential irregularities during the ballot counting process, sparking widespread concern over the integrity of recent elections.

The Georgia State Election Board convened to address various complaints, notably SEB 2023-025, submitted nearly two years ago. This complaint, along with previous anomalies outlined in Complaint 2021-181, highlighted irregularities in the 2020 ballot counting process.

Joseph Rossi, among others, revealed over 6,500 instances of double/triple counted ballot batches during the “Risk-Limiting Audit,” resulting in a significant net gain of votes for Joe Biden.

According to the video posted on Saturday, May 11, 2024, during the meeting, General Counsel Charlene McGowan shed light on the investigation’s findings. She emphasized the importance of documents like ballot images, batches loaded reports, and tabulator tapes, although she claimed they played no role in tabulation.

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Pennsylvania has become a focal point of controversy in the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as a startling revelation emerges.

Recent reports indicate that a staggering 766,000 mail-in ballots have seemingly appeared out of nowhere, casting doubt on the integrity of the electoral process in the state.

In a tweet posted on Saturday, May 11, 2024, the emergence of these ballots raises serious questions about the transparency and reliability of the election results.

How could such a large number of ballots suddenly materialize, seemingly out of thin air? And what impact might this revelation have on the outcome of the election?

The controversy surrounding the 766,000 ballots centers on their origin and legitimacy. According to reports, there is no record of these ballots ever being returned by voters, leading to speculation about their authenticity.

Were these ballots fabricated or tampered with in some way? Or is there a more innocent explanation for their sudden appearance?

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Former Memphis cop Patric Ferguson, 32, is accused of abducting a man, fatally shooting him in the head, then throwing his body in a river. Photo Credit: YouTube/ABC24 Memphis

According to a report by Atlanta Black Star on Saturday, May 11, 2024, former Memphis police officer Patric J. Ferguson, 32, finds himself ensnared in a federal indictment, accused of kidnapping and murdering a man while on duty.

The federal grand jury handed down the indictment on May 8, leveling eight counts against Ferguson, including federal civil rights violations, kidnapping, and weapons offenses.

This indictment stems from a tragic incident that unfolded in 2021, casting a shadow over the Memphis law enforcement community.

Details emerging from the indictment paint a harrowing picture of Ferguson’s alleged actions.

On January 5, 2021, Ferguson purportedly stormed into the residence of 30-year-old Robert Lee Howard, brandishing a firearm.

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In a letter dated April 8, 2024, addressed to Chief Judge Swain of New York, Ashley Biden, daughter of Joe Biden, confirmed the authenticity of her previously ‘stolen’ diary.

The diary, which has sparked considerable public and media attention due to Joe Biden’s perverted acts, became a subject of controversy when excerpts were leaked online.

Ashley Biden’s letter, obtained by the New York Times, was submitted as part of a judicial proceeding against Aimee Harris, one of the individuals convicted of ‘stealing’ and selling her personal journal.

In her correspondence, Ashely Biden expressed profound distress over the theft and subsequent public dissemination of her private thoughts, which she described as “stream-of-consciousness” musings meant for personal healing.

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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) pushed back on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s comments about anti-Israel protesters on college campuses after she had claimed they did not “know very much at all about the history of the Middle East.”

Clinton, while on MSNBC’s Morning Joe last week, said she had conversations with various young people and that she found they were uninformed about the history of the Middle East, U.S., and “many areas of the world.”

Van Hollen responded to his fellow Democrat’s comments by saying she was “quite dismissive” of student protesters’ alleged concerns while speaking on CBS News’s Face the Nation on Sunday.

“Well, I thought, Margaret, that Secretary Clinton’s comments in that regard were quite dismissive of students’ concerns about the awful humanitarian crisis and high civilian death toll in Gaza,” Van Hollen said.

He also added that while students on campus have a right to protest, they must also “make sure that students feel safe on campus,” and specifically denounced antisemitism. The various anti-Israel protests on college campuses have seen several reported incidents of intimidation and harassment of Jewish students.

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Leaked insurance documents back him up: ‘The insurance companies are juicing the system’

By Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit

World-famous cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough recently revealed startling figures about the immense earnings doctors received for pushing the COVID-19 injections.

On the Tommy T Podcast, Dr. McCullough claimed that a typical doctor could make an extra $250,000 if they injected a substantial portion of their patients.

More specifically, if a doctor injected 75% of his or her patients at $250 per newly-injected person, that would end up being around $250,000.

This revelation was discovered through a leaked Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield document.

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According to a newly unsealed defense motion related to search warrants against Walt Nauta, a lawyer with an attorney-client privilege relationship with President Trump proposed to act as an undercover informant in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents case.

Recall that Walt Nauta, a former White House employee and Navy veteran who worked valet for Trump and served as a personal staffer at Mar-a-Lago was indicted along with Trump last year.

According to the motion filed earlier this month, a lawyer for Trump was enlisted to act as an undercover informant/source in Jack Smith’s classified documents case.

“The affiants hid information about [redacted] who were acting as political enemies of President Trump, including one attorney who had an attorney-client privilege relationship with President Trump and then proposed to act in an undercover parallel role to [redacted].

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American homeowners falling into negative equity rose in the first quarter of the year as soaring living costs and a volatile property market strain households.

The number of mortgages considered ‘seriously underwater’ rose from 2.6 percent to 2.7 percent of all residential mortgages, a new report shows.

In Kentucky, the percentage of ‘seriously underwater’ mortgage holders rose to 8.3 percent in the first three months of the year – the highest of any US state. To hit the threshold, owners must owe at least 25 percent more than the estimated value of their home.

Louisiana, where house prices have fallen 2.8 percent in a year, has the largest share of troubled mortgage holders. Some 11.3 percent of home loans in the Pelican state are now seriously underwater, according to the latest data from ATTOM.

Wyoming followed with 8.8 percent of its mortgage holders hitting the threshold.

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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) claimed Sunday that all who are involved in former President Donald Trump’s trials are “part of the Democrat machine,” citing Trump’s trials as election interference.

Trump is facing a multitude of trials while running for president again, which could end up being a rematch between him and President Joe Biden. Scott defended the former president, calling him “a friend,” and accused the Democratic Party of being “thugs” for trying to stop Trump from running for president.

“But here’s the deal, just think about this,” Scott said on Fox News’s Fox News Sunday. “The Justice Department and Biden Justice Department sent their No. 3 person down to be the lead prosecutor. Does that not sound bad? His wife is a big donor, right? The judge is a Democrat donor. The judge’s daughter is a big Democrat fundraiser. Everybody involved in this, right, is part of the Democrat machine. And so, it looks horrible what’s going on here.”

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Joe Biden has been hemorrhaging a lot of support.

From minorities to women, heck, he’s even losing Never Trump support. And even liberal Democrats’ eyes have been opened by his actions regarding the Israel-Hamas war, which demonstrate how bad he is on policy with Israel and how feckless he is when he thinks it hurts him politically.

What’s that all adding up to? More bad news for Biden, as CNN’s data analyst Harry Enten explained to John Berman. Enten laid out how Biden is getting “squeezed from both ends” — both from the centrist former supporters shocked at his actions and the far left who might have supported him in the past but think he’s now been too supportive of Israel. These numbers don’t just show how much trouble Biden is in; they also show how twisted a lot of the Democratic Party is on this issue.

He pointed out how Biden is only getting 50 percent support from those who disapprove of his actions on Israel/Gaza. Those are from 2020 supporters.

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Nope, it’s not what you think. It wasn’t pro-Hamas protesters—this time.

We’ve seen anti-Israel protests at several graduations, and we’ve seen commencement ceremonies canceled altogether as some universities bent their knee to the demonstrators—but we haven’t seen this before.

A graduation ceremony for nursing students at Howard University in Washington D.C. was canceled right in the middle of the keynote address Thursday as furious parents who were locked out due to capacity issues pounded on the doors and even smashed a window.

It was a chaotic scene:

The tensions flared because the venue simply wasn’t large enough for all the families who came to watch their loved ones walk the stage. There was at least one injury:

Loved ones of students in the College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences packed into the Cramton Auditorium in Washington, DC, on Thursday, but not all relatives made it inside the building before the ceremony was abruptly canceled during the keynote address.

Chaotic video footage shows dozens of people standing outside the auditorium chanting “Let us in! Let us in!” as the ceremony began. Pictures showed a glass door had been shattered during the commotion as people banged on the doors and tried to push past security to go inside.

Students, many of whom may have missed their high school graduations in 2020 because of COVID, were heartbroken:

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The battle started a decade ago with conservative parents in the eastern areas of Baton Rouge, Louisiana seeking the right to send their children to better public schools.  Their requests for a redistricting to build a new school in their area was denied by the city.  Year after year Louisiana public schools have been rated some of the worst performing schools in the US, not just in education but also in safety.

Then there was the ongoing threat of rising crime combined with persistent Democrat controlled leadership; the policies of progressives directly contributed to repeat offenders being released onto the streets.  Conservative residents, feeling that Baton Rouge leaders had no intention of representing their interests or listening to their concerns, decided they had to take drastic measures to make a change

The result was an effort of citizens in the east to break away from Baton Rouge entirely and create their own city, called St. George.  The problem for Democrats was that citizen proponents of the new city would be taking away access to their money, their businesses and their children.  This was apparently unacceptable.

The corporate media and elements of the Democratic Party immediately launched a propaganda effort to paint the breakaway community (and other movements like it) as “white flight” and a new form of segregation.  Their argument was that the petitions for St. George were racially motivated and a return to the Jim Crow era of Louisiana politics.

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‘We’re ready and we will absolutely find you, hunt you down, and charge you to force the extent of the law,’ the sheriff said about criminals in his state

Florida sheriffs have been making headlines of late for their no-nonsense approach amid liberal cities being accused of enacting pro-criminal policies such as eliminating cash bail and reducing incarceration. The Lee County sheriff is no exception.

Sheriff Carmine Marceno, originally in New York, is taking a hard line on criminals thinking they can “play” in his county, warning he will “hunt” them down. The sheriff blasted liberal cities for trying to tip toe around taking a hard line on criminal behavior.

“My message… is clear. If you think you can deal poison and commit crime, stay clear of Lee County and all the great state of Florida. We’re ready, and we will absolutely find you, hunt you down, and charge you to force the extent of the law,” he said in an interview with Fox News Digital.

He also said he was noticing that people on the far-left are fleeing New York and California, and go to Florida for the tone of safety set by the DeSantis administration. But then, they begin voting for the same political perspective that turned their towns into anarchy, the sheriff argued.

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