[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …to give criminals 'a fresh start'
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has pardoned more than 175,000 marijuana convictions - the largest in the United States - in an effort to give convicts 'a fresh start.'
The Democrat declared the move the 'most sweeping state-level pardon in any state,' and said it will help reverse harms caused by the War on Drugs as he signed the order on Monday.
It will include more than 150,000 misdemeanor convictions for simple possession and more than 18,000 misdemeanor convictions for use or possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia, the governor's office says.
Some individuals may even have more than one conviction pardoned under the order.
'We are taking actions that are intentional, that are sweeping and unapologetic, and this is the largest such action in our nation's history,' Moore said at a news conference.
[FoxNews] The task force will develop a framework for reparations, seeking improved housing, education, jobs, and criminal justice.
The City Council’s Black Caucus will also participate in the task force hearings and recommendations.
Alderman Nick Sposato, a critic of Johnson, told Fox Chicago the planned $500,000 to fund the task force could be better spent elsewhere.
"It's too divisive, it's going to divide us even more," Sposato said. "I don't know what the fairness about it would be. Maybe the report will say it's unnecessary, but I highly doubt that."
Reparations has been a thorny subject as some cities have tried to create a pathway for the descendants of Black slaves to collect compensation for the free labor of their ancestors.
During his speech, Johnson said Chicago still bears the scars of "systemic racism and injustices that have been inflicted on our communities."
"We've seen them in highways that cut through Black neighborhoods and the industries that, of course, flock to these neighborhoods and often contribute to increased pollution and poor health outcomes," he said.
"The disinvestment in our community has been intentional," he added.
He also cited the mismanagement by previous mayors and the closing of schools and anti-Black and anti-business policies. Chicago has long been a Democratic stronghold; it last elected a Republican as mayor in 1927, when William H. Thompson served until 1931.
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Illinois was always a Free State. The pre-Consitutional Article of Confederation's Northwest Ordnance stipulated no slavery in the territories. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), according to statisticians Phisterer (1883), Fox (1889) and Dyer (1908), 259,092 Illinois men served in the Union Army and as a result the state suffered 34,834 killed and several thousands more wounded.
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They've sure got "institutionalized" property taxes, I know that. Sr. owned modest 3 bedroom newer home on qtr acre w/basement on McKinzie St. Washington, Illinois just under $10,000. Per year in property taxes.
What a F'n embarrassment: SS and Newsome
[10News] A United States Secret Service agent was robbed at gunpoint over the weekend in California and fired his gun during the incident, according to local and federal law enforcement agencies.
The incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday near a residential community in Orange County as the agent was returning from a work assignment. The agent had his bag stolen at gunpoint, according to a release from the Tustin Police Department.
Did the bag contain government documents and such, or just his dirty laundry? What’s the penalty for letting government documents and such be forcefully taken from one’s possession?
During the incident, the agent fired his government-issued weapon, the United States Secret Service said.
The police department and Secret Service both said in separate statements they do not know if the suspect was injured as a result of the incident.
The Secret Service agent’s identity is not revealed in the press release.
President Joe Biden was in Los Angeles for a fundraiser event at the Peacock Theater on Saturday evening. The president returned to his Los Angeles hotel shortly before 9 p.m.
The suspect left the scene in a silver car and has not been located, though some of the Secret Service agent’s belongings were recovered.
In an exclusive statement to Scripps News, Anthony Guglielmi, the director of communications for the U.S. Secret Service said, "We are thankful that the employee did not sustain any injuries."
Full statement from the United States Secret Service:
A member of the U.S. Secret Service was the victim of an armed robbery in Tustin, California late Saturday when returning from a work assignment. The employee discharged their service weapon during the incident but unknown if the assailants were struck. We are thankful that the employee did not sustain any injuries.
This remains an open and active criminal investigation and any additional comments must come from the primary investigative agency which is the Tustin Police Department. Anyone with additional information about the incident is encouraged to call the Tustin Police Department Detective Melendrez at 714-573-3372
— Secret Service director of communications Anthony Guglielmi
The Tustin Police Department says the investigation is open and active.
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@ #6 - I grew up in Orange (Tustin Adjacent). There are certainly some sketchy places in OC and increased gang/drug activity. The location of this incident is not one of them. Home values well north of 1 mil. Armed robbery like this is rare in this area. I'd bet there's more to this story. Only 2 streets provide access to a 150 home sub-division. The notion that an UNSUB was just randomly waiting for a USSS agent to arrive at 9:30 at night to commit a robbery?? Not likely IMHO. More likely - agent covering up losing the bag.
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"...unknown if the assailants were struck."
So the shooting investigation could not determine if assailants were struck and apparently no rounds were recovered nor blood evidence discovered. Wow, obviously the investigative scrutiny was exercised by the same USSS crack investigative crime scene team that could not determine the precise location, donor or intended recipient of the cocaine baggie when it was discovered at the White House? What a testament to the crime-fighting skills and marksmanship training of the modern, DEI Secret Service!
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … the aging President… and when they'd do it.
Nearly every time President Joe Biden appears in public these days, he fuels the chatter: Will aging Joe bow out of the 2024 race? Will he be forced to step aside?
In the latest incident, former president Barack Obama was seen on Saturday reaching for Biden's hand and seemingly guiding the 81-year-old Commander-in-Chief off the stage at a Los Angeles fundraiser.
And that came after Biden stood motionless and stared blankly for a full minute at a Juneteenth celebration at the White House on Monday, as others sang and danced around him. Eventually, Philonise Floyd, brother of the late George Floyd, noticed Biden's concerning pause and wrapped his arm around him to help.
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates is denying that Biden froze in the viral video, calling it a 'cheap fake memo' being spewed by the media.
But it seems no matter how much cold water the Biden campaign or Democratic Party throw on this raging fire of speculation, Americans will not be put off the Great Joe Biden Replacement Theory.
It's the idea that somehow, some way the President will be swapped out as the Democratic Party's candidate ahead of the 2024 election.
'Dropping out would be a big risk. But there's some threshold below which continuing to run is a bigger risk,' polling guru Nate Silver wrote on social media last week. 'Are we there yet? I don't know. But it's more than fair to ask.'
Silver, founder of the website FiveThirtyEight, noted that Biden's average approval rating had reached a new low of 37.4 percent. And chief among voter concerns is Biden's age, which Silver concluded to be, 'an extremely understandable concern, [as] Biden looks/acts his age and is a huge outlier to ask for the job until 86 [years old].'
Atlantic columnist Mark Leibovich cruelly stamped the President 'Ruth Bader Biden' earlier this month. That's a reference to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who once angered some liberals by refusing to retire during Barack Obama's presidency and subsequently passed away during Donald Trump's term, allowing the Republican president to nominate a conservative justice.
And James Carville, the political mastermind behind Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns, said flat-out this month that Biden should not have run for re-election.
Now, a last-ditch effort by Biden's backers to silence his critics inside the party may prove to be his ultimate undoing.
According to Democratic bigwig, Obama campaign guru David Axelrod, the Biden team scheduled one of the earliest presidential debates in history (June 27 on CNN) to prove to naysayers that Joe's not going anywhere.
But the gambit carries tremendous risk.
While an efficient debate performance by Biden could help rally Democrats behind him - a significant misstep would only stoke more replacement chatter.
Former Clinton advisor and polling expert Mark Penn suggested the CNN debate will be Biden's last chance to reassure voters he's fit for the job.
'They have deliberately thrown down the gauntlet for an early debate,' Penn said, 'and I think that's gonna be the point at which Americans judge: is he ready for another term or not.'
Now DailyMail.com has learned that if Joe stumbles in that first face-off with Trump or if his polling numbers keep falling, it'll take a united front of the liberal grandees to make Joe throw in the towel.
'The only people who could force him out would be Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer,' one Democratic strategist told DailyMail.com. 'It would have to be the four of them collectively.'
And the process would be high risk.
But other party insiders concede that the candidate swap could work if everything was carefully planned and executed.
Political columnist Joe Klein theorized in a recent newsletter that if Biden were to stand down, 'a vigorous young candidate — don't ask me who — could win over the country with a single convention speech' in August.'
In Klein's scenario, the Democratic party savior would deliver an Obama-esque inspirational speech, akin to Barack's famous 2004 Democratic Convention address, that would quickly bring together disaffected Democrats and moderate independents.
Plus, wrote Klein, the Democratic Party's prodigious dislike of Trump would unite any disaffected factions behind a new nominee.
However, there's another potential complication.
As the recognized leader of the Democratic Party, a stubborn Biden could refuse to step down and fight on to Election Day, even as the party grows more exasperated with his performance.
Biden is fiercely proud of his first-term accomplishments, which he – dubiously – boasts are more significant than other modern president's triumphs. Though to be fair, Biden was the one who beat Trump in 2020.
Additionally, while Biden respects former House Speaker Pelosi, Bill Clinton, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, his growing resentment of Obama has become painfully clear.
The former president famously backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 over Biden in the Democratic primary and even reportedly tried to stop his vice president from running in 2020.
Ironically, both Barack and Michelle Obama appear to have intentionally kept their distance from the Biden White House - knowing that their public appearances trigger nostalgia for the days when voters liked their nominees. Barack Obama made a brief appearance at the White House state dinner for the Kenyan president in late May and Michelle was nowhere in sight. Mrs. Obama, who has no close personal feelings for the Bidens, according to one well-connected Democratic source, flat-out ignored the invitation.
On Monday, in response to this article, a spokesman for Nancy Pelosi reiterated her support for the President, telling the Mail that, 'Speaker Pelosi has full confidence in President Biden.'
The Democratic party machine has now elected to hold an online nomination, complete with a 'virtual roll call,' to formally select Biden as their nominee ahead of the DNC convention in Chicago in mid-August.
Part of the reason to go 'virtual' is to ensure a more controlled process should the party decide to select a replacement candidate.
In that case, top Democratic leaders would quietly draft the substitute nominee in advance.
That person would not be Vice President Kamala Harris, according to sources, who observed that Harris has already had to fend off a push to replace her on the ticket.
'It doesn't just become Kamala. Kamala only becomes the nominee if Biden dies,' one blunt consultant said.
Another Democratic political insider believes that Harris has failed so badly as vice president that she has made it nearly impossible for Biden to step aside – because the party would have to contend with progressive blowback over passing over the potential first black woman president.
But if not Harris, then who?
Strategists theorize that Democrats would have to hold a public event to symbolically transfer power to the new candidate. Biden, Obama, Clinton, Schumer, and Pelosi would publicly introduce and endorse the anointed nominee.
They would also have to convince Harris to throw her support behind the substitute, which would be a painful experience for someone so fiercely protective of their political future.
And the Biden Replacement would also be a risk for the replacement nominee. If he or should took up the party banner and then lost to Trump in November, their political careers may never recover.
All Democrats may have some painful decisions ahead.
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I think Obama, Pelosi, Schumer and Clinton may have been expecting a big 2022 Republican sweep and figuring that would be a reason to convince Biden to retire for health reasons.
But the red wave fizzled.
Ironic.
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Right. Joe's gonna lead the 2024 Big Blue Tsunami!
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To me, Michelle Obama is the obvious choice. While I am not confident she would have won in a primary race, she could be nominated at the Convention if Biden withdraws before that, or selected afterwards. If she campaigned Biden-style (do nothing, say nothing) she would beat Trump, probably easily.
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The article delivered no evidence or details or what the headline insinuated. It is interesting, though, that they knew that the headline would draw interest. In short, the article is a dog turd that can be used as a mile marker. My criticism is of the Daily Mail not of Skid.
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I think it is likely that Joe will resist every attempt to step-down voluntarily, his keptocrat family is will aware that he can be 25ted by the Cabinet in a heartbeat. It is the Kamala roadblock that is the sticking point. If they can buy her obedience and agreement to step away from the ticket, they will insert a newly crafted puppet team into the election from the convention.
Her ego remains a hurdle so far...but enough money may buy the doorway to the Sacramento Satrapy.
The looming debate catastrophe may well be the coup-de-grace for Jojo's delusions, with pardons all around and "stock-options" for future grafty contracts to speed Jill/Hunter/Jim/Frank/rt al out the door.
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They can buy their own protection at the Walmart like everybody else.
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Jacumba California is the entry of choice for Chinese Illegals. By November, we may have 200,000 more Chinese men who have crossed our border. What happens when China invades Taiwan.https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1803167527490691526
[NYPOST] The White House went on the offensive against The Post Monday for calling out President Biden’s frailty in a series of recent videos — only to make false statements of their own in the process. "Who y'gonna believe? Me, or your lying eyes?"
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre accused The Post of spreading "misinformation" about videos of the 81-year-old president at recent events with G7 world leaders and former President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... ."Lies! All lies!"
Those events included a Thursday video of Biden being corralled by Italian PM Georgia Meloni after a skydiving demonstration and former President Barack Obama escorting his former VP off the stage at a glitzy Hollywood fundraiser Saturday night. Both of which appeared on Fox News, so you know they're phoney, right?
Jean-Pierre called the clips "cheap fakes", meaning to claim they were altered by humans through techniques such as zooming in and leaving out context — but also incorrectly called them "deepfakes," referring to AI-created footage with altered subjects and audio. I'm sure she never said such a thing. The future MSNBC hostess would never lie to us!
"I think you all have called this the ’cheap fakes’ video and that’s exactly what they are, they are cheap fakes video [sic], and they are done in bad faith," the press secretary said at her regular briefing.
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He's done, finished, TOAST! The KJP "don't believe your lying eyes" segment was telling. There won't be a presidential debate. There won't be any Biden second term.
This feckless, bore brush headed, rug munching creature's last day as WH spokesperson will be most welcomed and widely celebrated.
[Al Jazeera] The United States surgeon general has called on Congress to require social media platforms to carry warning labels on their effects on young people’s lives, similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes.
In a Monday opinion piece in The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , Dr Vivek Murthy said that social media is a contributing factor in the mental health crisis among young people.
"It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents. A surgeon general’s warning label, which requires congressional action, would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe," Murthy said. "Evidence from tobacco studies show that warning labels can increase awareness and change behavior."
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While this is likely a hidden Political warning to the Social Media giants, DC Swampers wants more campaign $$$$$.
My suggestion to the United States Surgeon General. Stick to Medical Issues and stay out of Politics and social issues.
BTW: In case, someone suggests giving the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) such power.
Remember the Federal toe in the door warning and the DC Swamp/Democrats establishing Mental norms.
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It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms
We had that on cigarettes since the '60s. It didn't stop a cabal of lawyers and states to extract money from the companies (while the feds subsidized the tobacco farmers) that basically ended up as more money into government waste and lawyers' bank accounts.
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part of skit from Norm McDonald,
'In Canada they have pictures of lungs of smokers on the carton. They are really gross. But so are the pictures of lungs of healthy people. My question is how did they get the pictures of lungs of healthy people. Did they kill them just to get a picture of the lungs?'
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
[NYPOST] The White House went on the offensive against The Post Monday for calling out President Biden’s frailty in a series of recent videos — only to make false statements of their own in the process.
