[FoxNews] A judge in Washington state released a teen one day after his arrest for allegedly stabbing a 65-year-old veteran to death at a home.
On Friday, the Renton Police Department said 19-year-old K'Shawn Konscience Jimerson called 911 just after 2 p.m. and told the operator he had stabbed someone and would be standing "outside with the knife." Jimerson also claimed self-defense during the call, police said.
"The 911 caller said that they had stabbed the handyman inside the house," Susan Hassinger of the Renton police told FOX 13 Seattle.
Witnesses told police they heard arguing and then saw Jimerson with a large butcher knife and covered in blood, FOX 13 reported.
A witness also claimed seeing 65-year-old handyman and veteran Michael Gray bleeding out and yelled for Jimerson to call 911.
When officers arrived at the apartment, they discovered Gray with stab wounds to his side and back. Officers immediately rendered aid, but Gray died at the home, police said.
Officers also recovered the knife from a sink full of detergent, court records show.
Police said Jimerson remained on the scene and was detained.
When law enforcement officers were asked if they objected to Jimerson's release, they marked "yes" on a court form, stating, "Jimerson, who is 19, stabbed a 65-year-old man with a large knife during an argument."
At his first court appearance, 27 hours after his arrest, Judge Michelle Gehlsen initially set bail at $50,000 despite finding probable cause for second-degree murder and the prosecutor asking for $2 million bail. Police said Jimerson posted bail and has been released.
The prosecutor has filed a motion to increase bail, and that hearing is scheduled for Thursday, Renton police told Fox News Digital.
Detectives told FOX 13 surveillance video shows Jimerson chasing Gray down from behind and hitting him in the back of the head with a large wooden club, then striking him two more times in the head after he fell to the ground.
The video then shows Gray getting up and turning to interact with Jimerson, who runs off as both men enter the apartment out of view of the camera.
Jimerson recently moved back to Washington from Texas, where his mom lives, FOX 13 learned.
Gray had been hired by Jimerson's grandmother to do maintenance work and had spent a day and a half cleaning the walls inside the apartment before his death, FOX 13 reported.
Gray lived with his roommates in a single-story home across the street from the duplex where he was killed, and they told FOX 13 he was a kind man who was always willing to lend a hand. The roommates also revealed Gray was a military veteran. It was not immediately known what branch of the military Gray served in.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Kings County Prosecutor's Office for comment but did not immediately get a response.
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..they should first start with why the state even has the power of justice and how hard it was to get it for literally hundreds of years. Then they need to grasp the concept of 'consent of the governed' to understand why all their rituals and rules can disappear if the governed no longer believed that they receive justice.
[JustTheNews] The first authorization is to allow 125,000 “refugees of special humanitarian concern” by region from multiple continents
On the same day that President Joe Biden said he’d reduced illegal border crossings by 60% at the southwest border, he announced Monday a sweeping extension of refugee admissions for foreign nationals and “habitual residents” of countries in multiple continents.
The authorization is two-fold.
The first expands a refugee admission process to 125,000 foreign nationals from countries around the world.
The second opens a refugee admission process to foreign nationals and those with “habitual residence in” Cuba, Iraq, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, Eurasia, the Baltics, among others, with no numerical limitation.
Biden issued the sweeping measure through a memo issued to the Secretary of State (Presidential Determination No. 2024-13 on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal 2025), saying he was authorized to do so “by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, in accordance with section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act … and after appropriate consultations with Congress.”
Doing so, he says, “is justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.”
The authorization is for fiscal 2025, which begins Oct. 1.
The first authorization is to allow 125,000 “refugees of special humanitarian concern” by region from multiple continents:
Africa: between 30,000 and 50,000
East Asia: between 10,000 and 20,000
Europe and Central Asia: between 2,000 and 3,000
Latin America/Caribbean: between 35,000 and 50,000
Near East/South Asia: between 30,000 and 45,000
The allocation ranges “are intended to provide flexibility as needs arise, but the total admissions among all of the regions may not exceed 125,000,” the memo states.
The State Department is required to provide notification to the U.S. House and Senate Judiciary committees. It is also authorized “to transfer unused admissions allocated to a particular region to one or more other regions, if there is a need for greater admissions for the region or regions to which the admissions are being transferred.”
Biden also authorized the State Department to provide taxpayer-funded assistance to so-called refugees through the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962.
Providing taxpayer funded assistance to or on behalf of those applying as refugees and for admission to the United States, Biden says, “as part of the overseas refugee admissions program will contribute to the foreign policy interests of the United States and designate such persons for this purpose.”
The second authorization allows foreign nationals or habitual residents of the below countries to apply for refugee status:
Cuba
Eurasia and the Baltics
Iraq
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras.
It also states that those allowed to apply for refugee status include "in certain circumstances, persons identified by a United States Embassy or by an authorized State Department referral partner in any location," meaning from anywhere in the world.
The memo stipulates no numerical limits. If their refugee application is approved, they will receive taxpayer-funded assistance and be released into the U.S.
The authorization is for fiscal 2025 “for the purpose of admission to the United States,” the memo states.
Biden says he issued it “after appropriate consultation with the Congress.”
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Chris Cuomo
…whose brother is a Democrat…
has blasted mainstream media outlets for failing to follow-up DailyMail.com's exclusive about Doug Emhoff assaulting an ex-girlfriend.
Emhoff, the Second Gentleman of the United States,
…which is not a thing, no matter how loudly they pretend…
was accused of 'hitting' his then partner in the face at a event in 2012.
But America's most powerful liberal outlets including The New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN have all failed to follow-up on it.
That has led to allegations of hypocrisy from critics including Cuomo, who believes the same outlets would be quick to seize on a similar story about a Trump family member.
Speaking on his NewsNation show, the former CNN star anchor said: 'If the name were Trump, instead of Emhoff, it would be all over the news.
'If it were Trump or anybody related to him, it would be on every tv show that is on right now.'
DailyMail.com's exclusive was followed-up by other large outlets including the New York Post and Newsweek.
But the refusal of the nation's most influential outlets to touch it has sparked fresh speculation that they're providing cover for Emhoff in a bit to help Kamala Harris win next month's presidential election.
The alleged incident involving Emhoff and the woman happened while waiting in a valet line after a Cannes Film Festival event in France a decade ago.
One of the woman's friends told DailyMail.com that Emhoff's ex called him immediately after the incident, sobbing in her cab, and described the alleged assault.
DailyMail.com is not naming the woman, who is a successful New York attorney, but will refer to her by the pseudonym 'Jane'.
A second friend said Jane, who had been dating Emhoff for three months, also told her about the alleged violence at the time.
Another said that Jane told her in 2014 that she had dated Emhoff and later recounted the story of his alleged abuse in 2018.
The friends, who all asked not to be named for fear of retaliation by Emhoff, shared with DailyMail.com pictures of him and Jane together from 2012, and other documents and communications corroborating elements of the story.
The new claims came after DailyMail.com revealed that Emhoff had cheated on his first wife and mother of his two kids around 2008.
Emhoff is said to have impregnated his daughter's nanny who also worked as her grade school teacher.
He later admitted the affair with the nanny and teacher, Najen Naylor, after DailyMail.com published the story last month.
All three of Jane's friends said she also told them about a disturbing alleged incident during her relationship with the Second Gentleman, in which Emhoff nonchalantly admitted to impregnating Naylor.
Emhoff told Jane that the nanny accused him of causing her to have a miscarriage, the friends claimed.
Emhoff was previously dubbed by Democrats as a 'wife guy' and a 'mensch', a Yiddish term for an honorable, kind man.
He has also spoken out in media interviews about being an ally to women and against toxic masculinity.
[RealClearPolitics] Jonathan Howard with Florida State Guard Special Missions Unit assisting with aerial recovery in North Carolina following the damage of Hurricane Helene, delivered a video message explaining what is really happening on the ground.
"I had my team up here working as well. Here's the problem. I'm going to tell you everything that's happening from the ground, what I'm actually seeing, because what they're telling you is complete bullsh*t on the news and these politicians don't have a f*cking clue and they're lying," Howard said.
"I don't know why they're doing it," Howard said of the federal response. "I don't know what kind of conspiracy I've heard so many things, whatever you want to come up with, but they are literally allowing these people to f*cking die in the mountains right now because we can't get helicopters. They got money for everything else in the f*cking world right now."
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Now they have shut down all relief flights to the area. Me thinks this has the possibility of become a level Chernobyl event for the Donks.
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I think you have to put yourself into the mindset of the enemy. They live in a 'how will this play on CNN?' point of view.
Worse yet, they further filter that through a particularly arcane lens of how they fantasize normal people will view things. Which is something so far beyond their imagining it is no longer possible to represent.
Thus the continuous trail of tone deaf imbecility that so plagues this great country and it's decent people. It's based on a cavalier, 'those simple Jesus people will accept this' mentality. A mentality which is unerringly wrong.
Not just wrong in terms of misreading the target audience, but morally bankrupt and utterly soulless.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Joe Biden is sending 1,000 active-duty soldiers to North Carolina to help with the response to Hurricane Helene, the White House announced.
The troops, who are stationed at Fort Liberty, N.C., will help with the distribution of food, water and other supplies.
'They have the manpower and logistical capabilities to get this vital job done, and fast. They will join hundreds of North Carolina National Guard members deployed under State authorities in support of the response,' Biden said in a statement.
Biden made the announcement shortly before departing for a tour of North Carolina and South Carolina, where he'll tour the storm damage. He was spotted wearing brown hiking boots with blue jeans and a blazer as he boarded Air Force One.
North Carolina was hit hard by the storm, particularly in its western mountain region.
The tourist-heavy town of Asheville suffered terrible flooding and destruction.
Compounding the problem, several main routes into Asheville were washed away or blocked by mudslides, including a 4-mile section of Interstate 40. Additionally, broken water systems, downed power lines and poor cellphone service are making rescue efforts more complicated.
The Department of Defense already has activated 22 helicopters to aid in search and rescue operations and provided dozens of high-water vehicles.
In total, FEMA has shipped over 8.5 million meals, more than 7 million liters of water, 150 generators and over 220,000 tarps to aid response efforts for this historic storm, the White House said.
'It's going to take a long haul to restore these communities,' Biden said Tuesday.
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are making separate trips south on Wednesday to see a trio of states devastated by Hurricane Helene.
'I've ensured my travel will not disrupt the ongoing response,' Biden posted on X on Tuesday.
The White House said he will visit Georgia and Florida on Thursday.
Biden will take an aerial tour of South Carolina before being briefed by emergency responders in Raleigh, N.C. His flyover time should include the highly-impacted areas of North Carolina.
Harris will visit Georgia to see the storm damage and be briefed there. The Democratic presidential nominee canceled plans to campaign in Pennsylvania on Wednesday so she could visit the areas impacted by the hurricane.
Donald Trump, who visited Georgia on Tuesday, has been critical of the administration's response to Helene, falsely claiming Biden wouldn't speak to the state's governor.
But Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, confirmed he had spoken with the president.
Trump also claimed without evidence that Democratic leaders were withholding help from Republican areas. Biden is traveling to South Carolina, a Republican-led state, to see the storm damage.
More than 130 people in six states, from Florida to Tennessee, died. Additionally, power and cellular service remains unavailable in many places.
Biden has said the administration is sending 'every available resource' to those areas.
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That's about a reinforced battalion. Everyone else is probably busy in their mandatory DEI classes. The G3 at all nearby major installations should have been mustering all available resources to throw into the area. Doesn't reflect that.
Jeez! If only there were some way to predict when violent storms would happen. Some sort of magic crystal ball or computational fluid dynamics model that would give us some advance warning so we could start making excuses and putting off decisions.
[JustTheNews] Breaking up the strike with his presidential authority could damage Kamala Harris’ chances with a key union worker constituency, but an economic chaos may damage her cause, too.
The White House has remained firm in its position that it will not intervene in negotiations between port workers and dock employers as trade flows screech to a halt and the lead union boss threatens to "cripple" the economy less than 35 days before the presidential election.
A general strike spread across most of the major ports on the U.S. East Coast Tuesday as the labor union representing the workers, International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), said dock employers failed to give in to their demands.
The strike threatens to plug up an estimated $2.1 billion in daily trade flows from these busy ports as the presidential election and holiday seasons fast approach.
Republicans and hundreds of industry associations have called on President Joe Biden to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, a law originally passed in 1947 that gives the president the authority to intervene in strikes if they threaten to cause a national emergency. The act was last used in 2002 by President George W. Bush to reopen ports on the West Coast after employers prevented longshoreman from entering their facilities.
But before the strike began Tuesday, Biden signaled he would not invoke the post-war act to end the strike, especially given the immense damage from Hurricane Helene across the U.S. Southeast and persistent inflation as the holiday season approaches.
“Mr. President, will you intervene in the dockworkers strike if they go on strike on Tuesday?” a reporter asked the president.
“No,” Biden replied.
“Why not?”
“Because there’s collective bargaining, and I don’t believe in Taft-Hartley,” Biden said.
The White House on Tuesday again confirmed the president would not use the authority under the act to intervene in the negotiations even as the union appeared to dig in its heels for the long haul. The White House indicated its calculus stems from briefings by federal agencies on the potential impacts of the strike which “are expected to be limited at this time” on consumers.
Biden is also motivated by political calculus with the presidential election just more than a month away. Breaking up the strike with his presidential authority could damage Kamala Harris’ chances with a key union worker constituency, among which previous polls show she has struggled to maintain Biden’s levels of support. Leaving the strike unaddressed could cripple the U.S. economy—in the union boss’s own words—under his watch. Historically, a downturn in the economy rarely favors the incumbent party, which in this case would hurt Harris’ election chances.
Biden and Harris may be banking on the assessment of his federal agencies, which briefed both the president and Vice President Harris on how the strike could impact the prices of major goods. According to Politico, those agencies' assessments of the strike showed little expected impact on major goods like grain, oil, gasoline, and other fuels imports and exports.
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I hope EVERY involved union member loses their job and never finds another. Honestly, the moment their boss threatened to cripple the economy, they became terrorists.
2) a task ripe for automation. Hell, it's already been done once on a smaller scale with industrial pick & place systems - machines that pick something up from here and put it down over there. Kinda like a longshoreman, eh?
This sounds like a job for the next Elon Musk. Who is up for some disruptive fun?
[PJMedia] Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted on Wednesday that "FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season." One reason for that is that under Biden-Harris, FEMA spent $650 million this fiscal year providing services and housing to illegal aliens. And $364 million the year before that.
If you thought the Federal Emergency Management Agency was just in the business of providing relief to Americans of all creeds and colors when disaster strikes, let's just say that the Biden-Harris administration has broadened the agency's portfolio to include non-emergency aid to folks who aren't even supposed to be here.
Did I really put "you'll never guess where it went" in the headline? I should have given you more credit because I'm sure you totally guessed that one.
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Agreed.
So that money is just earmarked, not necessarily spent, unless it was electronically transferred at the turn of the clock, right?
But that turn of the clock happened after landfall.
So I have questions:
Like, what was that budget allocation which necessitated an immediate electronic transfer?
Where is the slush fund for such a weather event, including, oh I don't know, a winter storm? Spring Tornado Season 'in our direst Climate Change Emergency?'
[FoxNews] Dozens of lawmakers in the House and Senate are calling for more information from the Justice Department about efforts to stop noncitizen voting in federal elections, which they call a "serious threat" to election integrity, citing officials in multiple states who have identified noncitizens on their voter rolls.
A letter from 73 lawmakers, led by Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland said they were "deeply concerned" by reports of noncitizens registering to vote and voting in federal elections and had not received a response from an inquiry in July on the matter.
"As of today, there has been no response from you or your Department regarding the inquiry on July 12, 2024, seeking information on efforts undertaken by your Department to enforce laws prohibiting non-citizen voting. Given that the 2024 Presidential Election is in less than 34 days, your Department’s inaction and refusal to provide any information regarding its efforts to promote public trust and confidence in our elections is especially alarming," they wrote.
Specifically, they asked how many aliens have been prosecuted under laws related to noncitizen voting, how the DOJ handles allegations of noncitizen voting or registration and the steps it takes to prevent such practices.
Noncitizens are not allowed to vote, and top Republicans, including former President Trump, have repeatedly expressed concern that noncitizens may attempt to vote in federal elections, particularly given the influx of immigrants across the southern border in recent years.
In August, Republican lawmakers pushed for the SAVE Act, which aimed to require states to obtain proof of citizenship in person when registering an individual to vote and require states to remove noncitizens from voter rolls, to be attached to a spending bill extension to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the fiscal year.
The lawmakers in the letter cited an announcement by the Virginia attorney general that it had identified 6,303 noncitizens on its voter rolls in 2022 and 2023, while Texas had removed 6,500 noncitizens from its voter rolls. Of those, 1,930 had a history of voting.
The DOJ itself announced last month that it had charged an illegal immigrant with stealing a U.S. citizen’s identity to vote in multiple elections and fraudulently obtain a U.S. passport.
It also asks what steps the department is taking to prosecute noncitizens registered to vote in the 2024 election. DOJ confirmed to Fox News Digital that it had received the letter.
This week, the DOJ sued Alabama, alleging the state removed voters who had been issued noncitizen identification numbers from its election rolls too close to Election Day. The agency argued that officials violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which requires states to complete any changes to the voter registration lists no later than 90 days before federal elections.
[RedState] If you've been wondering about Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's many voyages to the Middle Kingdom, you're not alone. It's a bit of a curiosity, an American politician who is so cozy with China, a Communist country under the single-handed control of Chairman Xi, and a nation that's not exactly friendly to the United States. It's a bit like the daffy old Bolshevik from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, honeymooning in the Soviet Union - only Tim Walz went back to China, again and again. It's enough to provoke questions. Useful idiot
On Wednesday that curiosity was rewarded, although the Harris/Walz campaign may not be too happy about it. It turns out that Tim Walz may well have provided indirect support for the Wuhan Institute of Virology - yes, that Wuhan Institute of Virology:
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz is coming under fire for supporting a U.S. research institute with connections to China.
The University of Minnesota's Hormel Institute has published research and worked with scientists from China's infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the same lab the FBI concluded was likely the birthplace of COVID.
The WIV was also host to numerous experiments by the Chinese military's People's Liberation Army (PLA), including some grisly ones on animals.
And Walz, who has spoken highly of China and has taken dozens of trips there including his honeymoon, has worked to secure at least $7 million in funding for Hormel Institute.
Good News: We Can Now Discuss the COVID Lab Leak Theory Rationally - Even in Dem-Led Committee Hearings
So, we have an American politician working to obtain funding for an American organization, the Hormel Institute, which supports and works with a Chinese virology lab that has a history of conducting ethically questionable experiments, and which is very likely the origin of the COVID-19 virus. Now that American politician is a candidate for the second-highest elected position in the land; a heartbeat away from being commander-in-chief of all the armed forces.
[FoxNews] During an election year, DOJ often holds off on major actions during the 60 days leading up to Election Day
Former President Trump blasted the Justice Department Wednesday for having "disobeyed their own rule in favor of complete and total election interference" after a key filing from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s election case against him was unsealed with just weeks before Americans cast their ballots.
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed Smith’s 165-page filing Wednesday afternoon. The filing lays out his case and the alleged evidence he intends to use in an eventual trial against Trump.
Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges brought by Smith.
But Trump blasted the Justice Department Wednesday evening.
"For 60 days prior to an election, the Department of Injustice is supposed to do absolutely nothing that would taint or interfere with a case," Trump posted in all capital letters to his Truth Social. "They disobeyed their own rule in favor of complete and total election interference."
DOJ practice during an election year has often been to hold off on major actions in cases that could impact elections during the 60 days leading up to Election Day, an unwritten policy commonly referred to as the "60-day rule." The "rule," which is really more of a tradition because it is not an actual rule, has been cited many times in recent years.
"The case is a scam, just like all of the others, including the documents case, which was dismissed!"
Trump was pointing to the other case Smith brought against him related to classified records. The case was tossed out by a federal judge in Florida who ruled that Smith was unlawfully appointed as special counsel.
Trump’s comments came in response to Smith's newly-unsealed filing, in which he alleges Trump "resorted to crimes to try to stay in office" after losing the 2020 presidential election.
"With private co-conspirators, the defendant launched a series of increasingly desperate plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin," Smith wrote.
"His efforts included lying to state officials in order to induce them to ignore true vote counts; manufacturing fraudulent electoral votes in the targeted states; attempting to enlist Vice President Michael R. Pence, in his role as President of the Senate, to obstruct Congress’s certification of the election by using the defendant’s fraudulent electoral votes; and when all else had failed, on January 6, 2021, directing an angry crowd of supporters to the United States Capitol to obstruct the congressional certification."
Smith claims that the "throughline of these efforts was deceit," claiming Trump and co-conspirators engaged in a conspiracy to interfere with the federal government function by which the nation collects and counts election results, which is set forth in the Constitution and the Electoral Count Act (ECA); a conspiracy to obstruct the official proceeding in which Congress certifies the legitimate results of the presidential election; and a conspiracy against the rights of millions of Americans to vote and have their votes counted."
The Supreme Court earlier this year ruled that a president is immune from prosecution for official acts.
Smith was then required to file another indictment against Trump, revising the charges in an effort to navigate the Supreme Court ruling. The new indictment kept the prior criminal charges but narrowed and reframed allegations against Trump after the high court’s ruling that gave broad immunity to former presidents.
Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges in the new indictment as well.
Last month, Chutkan said she would not hold the trial for Trump on charges stemming from Smith's Jan. 6 investigation until after the 2024 presidential election. She set deadlines for replies and paperwork from federal prosecutors and Trump's legal team for Nov. 7 — after Election Day.
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Last month, Chutkan said she would not hold the trial for Trump on charges stemming from Smith's Jan. 6 investigation until after the 2024 presidential election. She set deadlines for replies and paperwork from federal prosecutors and Trump's legal team for Nov. 7 — after Election Day.
But she released this 33 days before the election - without any sort of rebuttal allowed.
[Federalist] "FEMA needs Mo Money for Hurrican Helene relief!"
The Biden-Harris administration took more than a billion tax dollars that had been allocated to the agency responsible for American disaster relief and used it to offer services for illegal immigrants.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) allocated nearly $364 million in the fiscal year 2023 and $650 million for the 2024 fiscal year to the "Shelter and Services Program" "to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)," according to the government’s website.
The program is run in cooperation with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) "to support CBP in the safe, orderly and humane release of noncitizen migrants from short-term holding facilities," FEMA’s website reads.
An anonymous X account highlighted the program after MSNBC pundit Michael Steele sought to portray former President Donald Trump as the commander-in-chief who denied Americans full relief from catastrophic weather events.
Hi Michael, Biden has been using FEMA funds to house illegal immigrants all over the country his entire Presidency.
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They allocated it to trafficking vendors and vendors providing posh benefits to illegals that encouraged more illegal immigration. Sharks and their parasites growing fat off the carcass of this great nation.
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Posting from CTH ealier today:
"Duke Energy confirmed on X that hundreds of power substations are offline across the Carolinas.
We initially reported on this unfolding power grid crisis Wednesday morning in a note titled Grid Apocalypse Hits Carolinas: 360 Substations Down, Power Restoration Could Take “Months,” citing experts who warned, “It could take a very long time to restore power to everyone” due to shortages of transformers and other electrical equipment and critically low US stockpiles."
“Approximately 370 substations were out of service from the storm in the Duke Energy Carolinas service area. For those that were damaged and can’t be repaired in a timely manner – mobile substations will be installed to allow us to restore service as soon as it is safe to do so,”…
Jesse D. Jenkins, an assistant professor and macro-energy systems engineering and policy expert at Princeton University, warned on X,
“This is devastating. We do NOT have 360 substations worth of transformers and other electrical equipment sitting in stockpiles waiting to be deployed. It could take a very long time to restore power to everyone. Are we facing a Hurricane Maria-type impact on grid infrastructure?”…
…Making matters worse for residents of North Carolina, some X users are pointing out the Biden-Harris administration supplied transformers to Ukraine. It needs to be clarified if these transformers were drained from US stockpiles…
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump Jr. blasted the media for creating narratives that 'radicalize' voters who are 'trying to kill my father' during a tense exchange with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins.
Trump Jr. was speaking in the spin room after the vice presidential debate between Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz took place in New York City on Tuesday.
As noted by Collins, the debate had a civil tone where both potential vice presidents at times agreed with each other.
The conversation turned sour once the CNN anchor asked the former president's son 'should we see more of that on the debate stage when your dad's up there?'
Trump Jr responded: 'You know I'd love to see that across the board. Sometimes the political climate isn't that much, we've all heard about Trump derangements, we've seen what they've lied about my family, you know, I was an agent of Russia.
'But Hunter Biden's laptop was totally Russian disinformation, turns out the opposite was true. You know the media did that, they created so much of that environment.
That was the point where the interview grew tense. Trump Jr. proceeded to levy the blame of his father's assassination attempt on the political environment the media created.
'The media has radicalized the people that are trying to kill my father. We've had to deal with that twice now for the last two months. I've had to have that conversation with my five young children twice in the last two months about someone trying to shoot their grandfather.'
'You know that didn't just magically happen. That's not him, that's a media created thing, fake Russia scenario. They ran with it for years, even when it was disproven they ran with it. You know that environment wasn't just created by Donald Trump.'
Collins quickly interjected here to throw some criticism back at Trump Jr.
Collins said: 'Okay but can I just say you can't blame, and everyone wants your dad to be safe, no one wants the threats against his life to happen, but you can't blame the media.
'There's been no evidence that's what drove those [assassination attempts].'
But Trump Jr. interrupted and said: 'When someone allows people to have a platform to call someone literally Hitler everyday for nine years, it creates it.
'Whether you want to believe it or not , that's a fact.'
Collins clapped back with: 'But as you know JD Vance once likened your dad to Hitler as well. He questioned if he was America's Hitler.'
And then he did his due diligence, and by the time they met he’d changed his mind.
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Oct 8, 2018 — A right-wing news publication unearthed verified tweets from CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins calling another person a "fag...". (Newsweek)
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[FoxNews] A judge in Washington state released a teen one day after his arrest for allegedly stabbing a 65-year-old veteran to death at a home.
[PJMedia] Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted on Wednesday that "FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season." One reason for that is that under Biden-Harris, FEMA spent $650 million this fiscal year providing services and housing to illegal aliens. And $364 million the year before that. 
