David Char Revish was arrested on Oct. 9 in East Baton Rouge and has been charged with 18 counts of indecent behavior with juveniles, 18 counts of computer-aided solicitation of a minor and two counts of pornography involving juveniles.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Furious seniors have expressed their frustration at the Social Security uplift for next year, with many questioning how they will afford their living expenses.
The Social Security Administration last week announced nearly 68 million Social Security recipients will see a 2.5 percent increase to their benefits in 2025.
This uplift, known as the cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is the lowest since 2021 - an average increase of $49 a month.
Older Americans and senior groups have since expressed their disappointment at the raise, which they say does not reflect their changing expenses after years of high inflation.
'My social security disability check currently is only about $60 more than my rent. January when I sign my new lease I'll be running a negative,' one user wrote on a Reddit thread about the increase. 'I'm hanging on by a thread.'
Increased payments to nearly 7.5 million people receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) funds will also start on December 31, 2024.
The COLA uplift is based on a specific inflation measure called the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W).
This tracks the price changes that urban wage earners and clerical workers pay for a basket of common consumer goods and services.
The uplift will increase the average retired workers' benefit by $49 in 2025, hiking it to around $1,976 a month.
It is the lowest yearly increase since 2021, when beneficiaries received a 1.3 percent increase to benefits.
In 2024, there was a 3.2 percent hike, and in 2023 there was an 8.7 percent boost - the highest in four decades in response to record high inflation.
In 2022, benefits increased by 5.9 percent.
Now that the pace of inflation is slowing toward the Federal Reserve's 2 percent goal, the COLA adjustment has come down closer toward the historical norm.
The benefit increase has averaged around 2.6 percent over the last 20 years, according to nonpartisan group The Senior Citizens League (TSCL).
But the group said that the measure by which the yearly increase is calculated fails to measure inflation as seniors experience it.
TSCL executive director Shannon Benton said this year represents 'another lost opportunity to grant seniors the financial relief they deserve' by changing the COLA calculation which would 'better reflect seniors' changing expenses.'
She suggested instituting a minimum COLA of 3 percent.
'Our research shows that 67 percent of seniors depend on Social Security for more than half their income and that 62 percent worry their retirement income won't even cover essentials like groceries and medical bills,' Benton added.
And many seniors on social media are expressing exactly these concerns about being able to get by.
'I am grateful for any increase but it's not enough, rent goes up more than that each year, forget the increase in transportation and food and literally everything else, it won't really make much of a difference,' one user wrote on Reddit.
Another said: 'There are going to be many elders that will be going without things. Many live SS check to SS check as it is. With inflation this high it's going to be hard.'
'The COLA needs replacing with a cost increase that reflects the actual spending of seniors,' another person said.
Although inflation has fallen from its 2022 highs, sustained high prices have chipped away at household budgets - which is especially tough for those on a fixed income in retirement.
Food prices have risen by 20 percent in the last five years, according to Labor Department data.
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Older Americans and senior groups have since expressed their disappointment at the raise, which they say does not reflect their changing expenses after years of high inflation.
Idiots. Won't make any difference soon. At the rate of spending and the impossible deficit, your money is going to be worthless. Inflation is created by government. But, hey, you voted for it for decades. 100% increase of zero value is still zero value.
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The 2.5% will also be the adjustment for people retired from the Federal civil service.
FWIW, the monthly social security amount is capped at $4873 so those at that amount (probably no more than a few hundred like that) would not get an increase.
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If you have a Gubbamint Pension, the Windfall Provision suitably reduces any SSI payouts you get. I will basically get beer money, as deserved
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Helping my soon-to-be 87 yr old (Democrat) Mom reconcile and pay bills yesterday AM.
She said: "You know they'll take away Social Security soon".
I said: "Who Mom? Donald Trump? Who pledges absolutely not?"
She said: "on TV"
We're fucked
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We promised both my mother and Mr, Wife's mother that we would support them, should it become necessary.
Because it won’t be President Trump taking away Social Security, but the simple fact that money coming in from workers will be less than money promised to retirees. We’ve been warned about this since the 1970s, and Congress has over the years taken measures to push that back — raising the retirement age, increasing percentages and maximum amount taken out of paychecks, not raising the threshold for paying taxes on payments to keep up with inflation/COLA…
[Breitbart] Put this Bish away
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis instructed her former top prosecutor and ex-lover Nathan Wade not to answer any questions about his work in her office to the House Judiciary Committee.
Willis revealed her instructions to Wade in a Monday letter to Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH). Wade is scheduled for a deposition before the committee on Tuesday.
"I am concerned that your demand for Mr. Wade’s testimony would force him to improperly divulge confidential information that is protected by privileges," she writes, adding that she has informed Wade that her office "is asserting all legal protections and privileges related to information that he possesses about ongoing criminal prosecutions."
Wade’s sole case assignment for Willis was Donald Trump’s election interference case.
Willis’s case against Donald Trump for election interference has hit a number of roadblocks in and out of court.
Jordan launched an investigation into Willis in January 2024 for accepting more than $14.6 million in grant funds from the Department of Justice (DOJ) between 2020 and 2023. The timeframe of the funding has raised questions about whether the DOJ granted Willis federal funds to finance the prosecution of Trump.
On November 18, 2022, Wade spent eight hours in the White House counsel’s office, the same day U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Special Counsel Jack Smith and Matthew Colangelo, then the third-highest ranking official at the U.S. Department of Justice, resigned to take a position in the Manhattan prosecutor’s office.
That trio of events occurred just days a November 9 press conference in which President Joe Biden, asked about the prospects of Trump running against him in 2024, said, "We just have to demonstrate that he will not take power, if he does run, making sure he, under legitimate efforts of our Constitution, does not become the next president again [sic]."
Wade resigned from the case in March 2024 after Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee ruled that Willis could only remain on the Trump case if she removed Wade or if he voluntarily resigned.
While McAfee’s ruling found that the former lovers’ relationship produced no "actual conflict," he wrote that the two engaged in an "appearance of impropriety" necessitating Wade’s removal.
Willis and Wade have testified under oath that they did not begin dating until after he was hired as special prosecutor in November 2021. But a court filing from former President Donald Trump’s legal team says cell phone data shows Willis and Wade exchanged over 2,000 phone calls in the first 11 months of 2021 — an average of six calls per day before they began a romantic relationship.
Additional evidence contradicted Willis’s testimony as well.
Trump and his legal team maintain Willis’s prosecution is politically motivated lawfare. Trump has pleaded not guilty.
[NYPOST] Vice President Kamala Harris former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor is facing allegations of plagiarism after numerous passages from the Democratic presidential nominee's 2009 book ''Smart on Crime'' were discovered to closely resemble — or perfectly match — wording from other sources.
Harris, then the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... 's district attorney, wrote the book promoting a reform-minded approach to prosecuting crimes alongside ghostwriter Joan O'C. Hamilton — who told The Post when contacted Monday that she was surprised to learn about the alleged copying.
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo published the allegations Monday and credited an investigation by Austrian ''plagiarism hunter'' Stefan Weber — with Rufo posting screenshots on X of five examples in which the wording in the book closely resembles other sources.
In each instance, the purported source material predates Harris' book publication date.
The five side-by-side passages indicate that Harris may have lifted wording from an News Agency that Dare Not be Named article from 2008, a Wikipedia article as drafted in 2008, a Bureau of Justice Assistance report from 2000, an Urban Institute report from 2004, and a John Jay College of Criminal Justice blurb describing a 2007 award.
In at least two of the instances, the source of the original verbiage is cited in footnotes — however, quotation marks are not around the apparently copied words and in other instances passages appear to be wholly uncredited, such as the Urban Institute report.
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[NYPOST] A top Oregon state official has been put on administrative leave after a pink-haired, DEI-obsessed subordinate complained he was making hiring decisions based on qualifications instead of personal identity considerations, according to a report.
Mike Shaw, who until recently served as the Oregon Department of Forestry's second-in-command, was put on blast by Megan Donecker, the department's former DEI strategy officer, for looking ''beyond gender and identity in hiring, seeking only candidates most qualified for the job,'' OregonLive reported.
He was formally placed on administrative leave Aug. 6 after Donecker filed a formal complaint, according to the Daily Mail.
Shaw first drew Donecker's ire when he dared suggest the agency — which has over 1,400 employees and a biennial budget over $577 million — take a measured approach to DEI initiatives, likening plunging into them headlong to driving too fast on ''an icy road.''
Donecker claimed Shaw further added, ''We don't go 60 [mph] out of the gate, or we're gonna crash the car.''
[NYPOST] Elon Musk threatened to take legal action against Democrat-led Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, after a state commission cited the Republican-backing mogul's politics in its decision to reject a request for more frequent SpaceX launches.
The billionaire founder of SpaceX, which made history over the weekend when it conducted a successful test flight of its Starship Super Heavy booster rocket, slammed comments made by members of the California Coastal Commission after it denied an annual increase to 50 from 36 of Falcon 9 rocket blast-offs.
In a video of Thursday's meeting, commissioner Gretchen Newsom — no relation to Musk's nemesis and Democratic Calif. Gov. Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom ...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland... — expressed concerns over Musk's political posts on his social media platform X before the committee voted down the request 6-4.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has vowed to take legal action against the California Coastal Commission.
[The Federalist] The Biden-Harris Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging that Virginia’s removal of noncitizens and other ineligible registrants from its voter rolls is illegal.
"The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy and the Justice Department will continue to ensure that the rights of qualified voters are protected," Kristen Clarke, the hyper-partisan head of the agency’s Civil Rights Division, contended in a melodramatic statement.
The Biden-Harris Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging that Virginia’s removal of noncitizens and other ineligible registrants from its voter rolls is illegal.
"The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy and the Justice Department will continue to ensure that the rights of qualified voters are protected," Kristen Clarke, the hyper-partisan head of the agency’s Civil Rights Division, contended in a melodramatic statement.
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Behind the scenes, the Harris-Biden administration has reportedly pressed Iran to halt its plottings against Trump and other former members of his administration amid elevated security threats from the US adversary.
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"The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy and the Justice Department will continue to ensure that the rights of qualified voters are protected,"
The right of US Citizens to have an open and fair election without, uhem, foreigner election interference?
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Leave them on the rolls. Jail any of them that vote illegally. Drop them off after the election.
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"They really don't understand how this looks to normal Americans" "They" fully understand and delight in rubbing these shenanigans in the faces of normal Americans.
[Breitbart] Google wielded its massive market power to extract concessions from California lawmakers and secure a deal to support the state’s struggling journalism industry, according to people familiar with the negotiations who spoke to Bloomberg. Perhaps if you did actual, ya know, Journalism, instead of Democrat propaganda?
Bloomberg reports that in late August, Google reached a handshake agreement with California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks to spend $110 million supporting local journalism in the state over five years. However, the tech giant demanded that California taxpayers contribute an additional $70 million to the fund, even as the state faced a challenging budget deficit.
The deal fell far short of aggressive legislation proposed earlier by Wicks and another lawmaker that would have charged Google hundreds of millions annually to fund journalism in California. After private talks that excluded some of the state’s largest media companies, the agreement helped Google avoid a costly outcome that could have set a precedent for lawmakers in other states considering what Silicon Valley owes struggling news outlets.
Under the pact, which still lacks many key details, the University of California, Berkeley was named as a potential administrator of the new journalism fund, though the school expressed surprise at the announcement. USC is now under consideration for that role instead.
Many in California’s journalism industry criticized the state for not pushing Google for more money, viewing it as a missed opportunity to sustainably fund local news. Others argued the cash influx was the best outcome possible against one of the world’s most valuable companies, which had threatened to cut off news access for 40 million Californians if a deal wasn’t reached. So now Government bought their own "Journalism"
Google’s demand for taxpayer money aimed to establish a model it could point to in potential negotiations with other states seeking similar journalism deals. The company believes including public funds will dissuade other states from pursuing the more aggressive measures proposed in California.
The deal’s impact was limited by the lack of transparency and inclusion in the negotiation process. Few California news publishers, unions or interest groups were consulted, and some of those in the loop had ties to Google. The company is a major backer of several journalism organizations involved in the talks.
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I pretty much never hear anyone saying good things about this pope. Hope was expressed with Benedict that the Church would be guided back to the right path and then they elected Lenin-Francis. So now everyone just keeps quiet or mutters how the pope is wrong.
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.
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...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
