[Breitbart] Residents of Brooklyn, New York, are saying “none of us knew” or consented to a men’s migrant shelter being opened near their children’s private Christian school.
The all-male, 400-bed shelter opened in the borough’s Gowanus neighborhood in April right around the corner from City Life Academy, Fox News reported.
“I try not to worry about this too much,” concerned mother Irina Edelstein said during a Thursday appearance on Fox & Friends First. “There’s enough running around and getting ready for school as it is. And, trying not to let anxiety get to me.”
According to the mom of three, “No one told us from the city side about the shelter’s coming up.”
“We found out from local residents when they stopped us at the pickup and they said, did you guys know right around the corner here, the shelter’s opening up for 400 men. None of us knew. Even the principal didn’t know,” Edelstein complained.
The shelter is located in an old factory at 130 3rd Street, prompting worried members of the Third Street Block Association to sue the city, the building’s landlord, and the shelter’s operator, alleging that the use of the property as housing violates zoning laws, the Brownstoner reported.
According to the International Women’s Forum (IWF), environmental testing protocols and other building codes were not adhered to by city officials while they worked to accelerate the shelter’s opening.
Edelstein also said city council members claimed they reached out to schools and spoke to principals before the shelter was opened, but that was “absolutely not true.”
Her fears of safety risks following the shelter’s opening have not been unfounded — a suspected migrant was seen attempting to break into her car while she was picking up her children from the academy.
“I was walking back to my car and one parent stopped me and she said, there are two guys [that] just walked by your car and tried to open it while you were inside the school. And she said that looked like the guys who were residents of the nearby shelter,” she said.
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Residents of Brooklyn, New York, are saying “none of us knew” or consented to a men’s migrant shelter being opened near their children’s private Christian school.
[Federalist] Fulton County, Georgia, is allegedly not maintaining its voter rolls, according to a recently filed in federal court.
The suit, brought by Fulton County residents Jason Frazier and Earl Ferguson against Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger and members of the Fulton County Department of Registrations and Elections (FCDRE), alleges that "Fulton County does not maintain, nor does it even attempt to maintain, accurate voter rolls."
The suit cites, in part, testimony from Atlanta city attorney Patrise Perkins-Hooker who said last November that "Fulton County never does an independent search for anybody; dead people, felons, people who live out of state."
Perkins-Hooker said the Secretary of State’s office sends Fulton County a list of potentially ineligible voters who are then notified by the county about such allegations.
"We don’t have the right, to remove anybody’s privilege to vote without a hearing," Perkins-Hooker said. "We are not, on our own, initiating any investigation of our voting rolls to remove anybody."
But the suit argues that Fulton County is obligated to maintain clean and accurate voting rolls, citing state law which says "the board of registrars of each county or municipality shall have the right and shall be charged with the duty of examining from time to time the qualifications of each elector ... ." The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), also requires states to "conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters."
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The percent distribution of Fulton County population by race (across all racial categories recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau): 41% are white, 43.39% are Black or African American, 0.23% are American Indian and Alaska Native, 7.59% are Asian, 0.03% are Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 2.74% are some other race and 5.01% are multiracial. Ipso facto, Fulton will be corrupt.
BREAKING: The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court just overruled the state legislature and lower courts to FORCE election officials to count mail-in ballots that show up missing dates or with incorrect dates in the 2024 election
A Federal law enforcement agent has just told me that the New York State National Guard@NationalGuardNY has started staging guardsmen in hotels around the NYC courthouse where President Trump is going to be sentenced on September 18th, as they are expecting that…
…as they are expecting that Trump will be taken in to custody and sent directly to Rikers Island by Judge Juan Merchan.
Source says the National Guard is being staged there because the Mayor of NYC @ericadamsfornyc
and the Governor of New York @GovKathyHochul
both believe the police unions are preparing to stage a mass “out sick” day in support of President Trump on September 18th because none of the officers want to be involved in the persecution of Donald Trump. August 30, 2024
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08/31/2024 2:30 Comments ||
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If the Left is stupid enough to do it. Such a move will easily get Trump at least another 2% lead.
Their continued LAWFARE screams FEAR & PANIC.
Because it means they will be brought to trial for violating 18 U.S. Code Chapter 115 - TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES.
There is no doubt the Left Leadership is in a panic and knows it must eliminate Trump before Nov. 2024. Or, their 2020 coup, voter fraud, and massive civil rights and oath of office violations will be exposed.
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Are they stupid enough? Stupid and drunk is what they are. Hell yes they'll torch everything - they almost have to at this point.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
08/31/2024 9:11 Comments ||
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I am reminded of the scene in Ghostbusters when they are trying to shut down the containment field, and Egon is like, "That would be an incredibly bad idea."
If true, one face saving out would be a re-trial because of Yuan Merchant's daughter. Another would be if he were caught exposing himself in a bath house - and with that glamour shot don't tell me otherwise. Again, simply a retrial.
I mean, after the city and state of New York has been pissing on their NG, be pretty embarrassing if they too were a no show. If this is true, it is de facto admitted this is a bad, bad thing for everyone involved.
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Of course, getting sworn in while in Riker's Island will be something else.
I wonder if they will put Trump in solitary, or with the general population.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
08/31/2024 19:29 Comments ||
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Could it be that easy...placing him so he could not put his hand on a Bible??
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[HotAir] Did Walz Fib About His Political 'Origin Story'?
This looks slightly more serious as an instance of political dishonesty than the Case of the Missing Big Mac, but maybe not by much. Apparently, a story told by Tim Walz about the George Bush campaign provoking him into a career in electoral politics has some serious holes in it. But is it far enough off from the truth to matter these days?
Earlier this afternoon, investigative reporter Gabe Kaminsky dug into a tale told by Walz that claimed he had only chosen a career in politics after getting denied entrance to a Bush campaign rally in Mankato, along with two students he brought with him for the "educational experience." Supposedly, a Kerry sticker on one of the students' wallets prompted a staffer to rebuff their efforts to enter the rally.
Or so Walz' story goes. Kaminsky has a different explanation at the Washington Examiner, one that puts a different light on Coach Walz' claims. For one thing, Walz actually did get into the rally. The teenagers weren't his students either, and they had provoked a confrontation with the campaign a few days earlier:
That’s because Klaber and Burkhart had a public confrontation with the Bush campaign days before the 2004 rally. The teenagers were heard making “unfavorable comments” about Bush as they waited in line and were initially denied tickets, according to an archived news report.
After the story was reported by local news, because Klaber called the press, the Bush campaign contacted the teenagers and offered them tickets. In the lead-up to the 2004 election, there was heightened protest activity as police made arrests at campaign events. Klaber’s parents knew Walz and asked him to chaperone the teenagers to the event, expecting they may run into a problem.
They did: That day, as the trio waited in line, Bush campaign staffers told them that the Secret Service deemed Klaber and Burkhart a threat. Walz, in his retelling of the matter in 2006, said he was indignant. “As a soldier, I told them I had a right to see my commander in chief,” Walz said at a 2006 campaign event in Minnesota.
The Bush campaign staffers interrogated Walz and wanted to know if he supported Bush, according to Walz. But while the students were barred from the event, Walz was not, and walked right inside, one source said.
Still, the details may not match up, but the differences are perhaps not starkly black-and-white. But was this truly Walz' political awakening? Not really:
In ‘04, I worked for the MNGOP. President Bush visited Mankota on August 4, 2004, and I took pictures of protesters outside the event. Tim Walz (pictured on the far-right) protested Bush’s visit to Minnesota. The thread below from Walz about his role at Bush’s event is dishonest. https://t.co/rEpzoF0yE9 pic.twitter.com/ygLiIEG4p1
— Michael Brodkorb (@mbrodkorb) August 17, 2020
And this leaves us ... where, exactly? Maybe it didn't go down like Walz claims, but at least some of the elements are not in dispute. Kaminsky's report cautiously allows room for that, claiming that Walz' story has "significant inaccuracies" rather than being a false explanation. Walz may have been willing to protest Bush over the war -- and this certainly puts his snap retirement rather than deployment in a different and less-flattering light too -- but maybe he didn't have electoral ambitions before then, too. Who's to say when he got inspired to run for office? We know that Walz didn't run for office until the next cycle.
[POSTMILLENNIAL] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Mayor Brandon Johnson ...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city's stellar public schools system. He helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Da Mare, he served on the Cook County Board of Boodlng Commissioners from 2018 to 2023... says the city can expect a $982 million deficit for its 2025 budget, almost double what it was for his first year in office. Johnson blamed the shortfall on higher spending on city workers and lower revenues from city taxes, CBS News reports.
"The size of the budget gap is significant. It's going to require decisions that will speak to our overall collective desire to build an economy that works for working people. There will be sacrifices that will be made," Johnson told news hounds Wednesday afternoon.
While facing an almost $1 billion budget would seem historic, it doesn't equal the $1.2 billion dollar shortfall that former Mayor Lori Lightfoot ..the diminutive and vacuous former Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway... presided over in 2021 after Covid pandemic costs drove up the city's expenses. Lightfoot weathered the storm with cash infusions from the Biden-Harris administration in its Covid relief spending package.
Last year, Johnson dealt with a $538 million budget deficit for 2024 and didn't lay off city personnel or raise taxes. The mayor declined to say if he would reach for either of those options in the current financial crisis, nor did he comment on the possibility of legalizing video gambling in the city and slot machines at the airport to raise more money. He did not deny that layoffs or at least a hiring freeze at the city is a possibility, according to CBS.
"There are a number of options that we'll explore. What we're working to safeguard against is harm to constituents, to everyday people," he said. "We're working to provide as soft of a landing as possible."
When asked if the deficit had anything to do with city spending on illegal immigrants colonists, budget director Annette Guzman said it did not and claimed that a phenomenon called "underperforming revenue" was to blame, Axios noted.
Ald. Jason Ervin (28th), chairman of the City Council Budget Committee, downplayed the deficit, saying it is not as bad as he anticipated. But he said there will be some hard decisions to be made by the mayor.
"I think we have to look at everything, but at the same time we have to be reasonable so that we're not impacting those that have generally been most harmed by taxes and fees throughout the history of our city. But, again, I think we start on the expense side of paring that down before looking at revenue," Ervin told news hounds.
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LOGICAL AT WORK
When a city overtaxes the WORKING voters, businesses, fail to provide basic police protection, have politically applied law and order. The $$$$$ tends to move out of the problem area.
BTW: The Top 4 Largest employers in Chicago are:
# Employer_______________Employees
1 U.S. Government_________49,400
2 Chicago Public Schools____39,094
3 City of Chicago__________30,340
4 Cook County, Illinois______21,482
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Isn’t this the same chucklehead that said something about the city operating grocery stores, after some have shut down?
Or am I confusing him with some other dem clown?
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Or am I confusing him with some other dem clown?
Programs! Getcher programs! Can't tell the clowns without a program.
Looking at this in practical terms, Chicago has a population of ~ 2.6 million. Let's say 1/4 are adults. With a deficit of $982 million, we get deficit / adults = $1510 per potential voter
So, for one and a half large each, the mayor and his cronies can buy enough votes to stay in office. Not a bad deal considering that they are spending someone else's money. Besides, we gotta keep the unions happy, right?
[DAILYCALLER] Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz ...Kamala's smarmy-looking running mate, governor of Minnesota, who decided to retire rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness.... signed a law in May 2023 as Minnesota governor that will require schools to offer ''ethnic studies'' courses that may include lessons on ''resistance'' and discussions on ''social identities.''
The law requires elementary and middle schools to teach ethnic studies classes by the 2027 to 2028 school year, while high schools must offer a course on the topic starting in the 2026 to 2027 school year, though some districts have already begun implementing ethnic studies programs. The program is described as an ''interdisciplinary study of race, ethnicity, and indigeneity'' and says it will emphasize ''perspectives of people of color'' and analyze ''the ways in which race and racism have been and continue to be social, cultural, and political forces.''
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.
[Federalist] 
...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city's stellar public schools system. He helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Da Mare, he served on the Cook County Board of 
...Kamala's smarmy-looking running mate, governor of Minnesota, who decided to retire rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
