[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A 19-year-old student who wanted to find 'peace' with herself shot a classmate at a high school in the northern Brazilian town of Natal on Tuesday, the Rio Grande de Norte Civil Police said.
Authorities said that Lyedja Santos spotted an 18-year-old classmate along the hallway and shot him in the head at the E. Berilo Wanderley School.
Santos, who is in the 11th grade, then walked inside a classroom and attempted to shoot a teacher as students were about to being taking a test, but the gun got jammed, Brazilian news outlet G1 reported.
A student who was in the classroom told Inter TV Cabugi that one of their male classmates rushed at Santos and was able to restrain her.
'We were in the classroom about to take the test and she called her friends to talk to her, to talk about the classroom. A short time passed, about a minute, and we only heard the shot,' the student said.
'We didn't know for sure if it was a shot, we thought it was a bomb. She entered the classroom armed, aimed at the teacher's head, but the gun jammed,' they recalled.
'When it jammed, she turned her back to try to run, and the boy in the classroom jumped on top of her and managed to pull her away.'
The Rio Grande do Norte Military Police recovered the .38 caliber revolver that Santos had in her possession as well as three knives and several books about serial killers.
Authorities also found a handwritten note that Santos had on her in which she detailed the motive behind the failed school massacre.
'I acted alone, I acquired everything on my own and no one knew anything about it,' she wrote.
'To my friends and family, I thank you for everything you have done for me and I am sorry for everything I have caused. I would never have dreamed of dying like this, but this was the best option.
'I loved each and every one of you, even if I didn't show it. I hope you understand and forgive me, because that is the only way I will find peace.'
The wounded student, who is also an 11th grader and whose name has not been released, is in stable condition at Monsenhor Walfredo Gurgel Hospital, his father told G1.
'There is an entry and exit hole, the bullet was not lodged,' said Ilzeany Dilis, a nursing technician with the Mobile Emergency Care Service.
'At the time [of the shooting], he was conscious, oriented, and had vomiting symptoms. He had a CT scan, was evaluated by a neurologist and his health is fine.'
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A friend (whose paperwork was mislaid, or he might have been a sub that day), says the shooter shot everyone in the room, except two students. It wasn't just the teacher, per speculation in the first link. And if there was any bullying, it wasn't visible to the kids who sat next to her or had a locker next to her; on the contrary.
Wild guess, in light of her "manifesto" and the 2nd link--the parents were getting desperate and hoped the Christian school would be a good influence.
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@#4
Generation Lockdown, broken family, non-stop Modern Feminism Revenge Prrn...wonder what meds she was on?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Journalist Tucker Carlson successfully lobbied President Donald Trump to keep his former Secretary of State and CIA director Mike Pompeo out of his second administration, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Trump's decision to block Pompeo from his administration demonstrates his willingness to trust non-traditional media sources and outsider confidants rather than establishment figures with experience in government.
Pompeo, a four-term congressman from Kansasm was first in his class at West Point, and a graduate of Harvard Law University before entering the Trump administration in 2017 as the director of the CIA.
Trump shifted Pompeo to the State Department in 2018 after the disappointing tenure of former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, the president's first choice to lead the department.
Carlson has long been a public critic of Pompeo, in particular because of his reported attempt to assassinate Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
'Mike Pompeo, who is a very sinister person, the worst, and I always thought that and I've told Trump that, never should have let him run CIA or State,' Carlson said in a podcast interview with TV star Roseanne.
The story of Pompeo's efforts against Assange were first reported by Yahoo News in 2021, based on 'conversations with more than 30 former U.S. officials.'
Carlson, who urged Trump to pardon Assange, continued hammering Pompeo even after he left office.
'Mike Pompeo tried to have him murdered,' Carlson said, and added, 'Why is Mike Pompeo not in prison?'
Pompeo, Carlson repeated, would repeatedly flatter Trump to get him to trust him and his advice on foreign policy, which was that of a committed pro-war neo-conservative.
“Mike Pompeo, I saw it up close, and I saw it intimately close, is a liar and a flatterer,' he said.
Carlson also grew wary of Pompeo after the former CIA director's lawyers contacted him after he spoke about the John F. Kennedy assassination on his Fox News show.
'I spoke to someone who seen the documents two years ago and I got one fact out of them, which is yes the CIA was involved,' Carlson said during a 2024 interview with podcaster Joe Rogan. 'I thought that was news, so I went on TV and said that.'
'His lawyer called me and said, you know, you should know that anyone who tells you the contents of classified documents has committed a crime,' Carlson continued. 'He's threatening me.'
Carlson also blamed Pompeo for convincing Trump not to release the full investigative files of the JFK assassination to the public.
Mike Pompeo is the one who pressed Trump to keep those documents secret,' Carlson said to Rogan. 'Pompeo did that. I think Pompeo is a really sinister person and a criminal. I think that. I think that because the facts suggest that he was caught.'
Carlson told Rogan that Pompeo 'fully expects to become the Secretary of Defense' and called the idea 'completely insane.'
'Why would you give a criminal nuclear weapons?' he asked.
While he was still at Fox, Carlson also criticized Pompeo for escalating tensions with Iran after Trump killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike.
'It seems like about 20 minutes ago, we were denouncing these very people as the Deep State and pledging never to trust them again without verification,' he said in a 2020 Fox News segment. 'Now for some reason we do seem to trust them implicitly and completely.'
Carlson was one of many high-profile critics of Pompeo's views on foreign policy that Trump took to heart as he began drafting officials to serve in his cabinet.
Billionaire Silicon Valley investor David Sacks also opposed Pompeo, noting that the former Trump official was determined to expand NATO and escalate the conflict with Russia for launching a war with Ukraine.
'He's dangerously out of step with President Trump's views,' Sacks wrote before ultimately deleting his post on X.
Sacks also criticized an Wall Street Journal op-ed penned by Pompeo about the best way to proceed on the war in Ukraine.
'This is not a peace plan; it's a way to start WW3,' Sacks wrote bluntly.
Comedian Dave Smith, a libertarian, also voiced his criticism of Pompeo after Trump won the election.
'The "stop Pompeo" movement is great but it's not enough. Right now we need maximum pressure to keep all neocons and war hawks out of the Trump administration,' Smith wrote. 'They have had their time at the table and brought nothing but disaster to the world and this country.'
Smith's political influence has exploded in recent months after Rogan endorsed him as someone who 'actually knows what he's talking about.'
Donald Trump Jr. publicly agreed with Smith and indicated he would follow up with his father.
'Agreed 100%!!! I'm on it,' he wrote.
Hours later Trump announced on social media that Pompeo would not be invited back.
'I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation,' Trump wrote.
Pompeo was clearly angling for a position in Trump's second administration, even attending a rally with him in Pennsylvania before the election.
At the rally, Trump praised Pompeo as a 'great guy' and urged him to 'stand up' to be recognized.
But after Trump publicly announced Pompeo would not be invited back, he expressed his disappointment on social media.
'Mr. President - I was proud to work with you too. As you said, when we were together last week, you and I built the plan that made the world safer & led to no new wars,' he wrote on X.
#2
I think Trump's appointee process needs to be (or should have been) monitored. He hasn't learned his lesson from his last rodeo despite his version of TDSers saying he has. Same old, same old.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The parents of a volleyball player who was left with serious brain damage after she was knocked to the ground by a transgender opponent have broken their silence and have urged families to 'pull your kid' from sports games.
Payton McNabb was 17 when a ball spiked by a trans opponent with force struck her in the face, threw her to the ground and left her unconscious while she played a volleyball match in September 2022.
I have a female cousin who suffered a concussion during some kind of weird body contact "game" during a team-building exercise sponsored by her employee. All participants wore a balloon like suit to cushion themselves and ran full speed into their opponents. A video shows her colliding with a man who appeared 50% larger than she was, at full running speed. Both wore the protective suits, which turned out not to be that protective for her. She rebounded like tennis ball served by a pro player, went limp and was unconscious for a while after landing on the floor.She suffered headaches & various neurological problems for days or weeks afterward. The whole notion of this "game" was ridiculously dangerous. IMNSHO she could have sued her employer for its sponsorship of this disaster.
The only way to win at "games" like these is not to play. Complete boycotts of "sports" like these would be a good start.
#1
Injury = A former high school volleyball player, who suffered a brain hemorrhage... Payton was left with brain damage and paralysis on her right side, which ended her dreams of getting a volleyball college scholarship and has made it difficult to walk without falling... As McNabb hit the floor and was subsequently carried off the court in a stretcher, the gym fell into silence...
FFS woke people are complete idiots, it took a review to determine:
A major review carried out last year found that early exposure to testosterone in trans women mean they possess at least eight physical and mental attributes that could give them an advantage in sports... Trans women were also shown to have greater muscle mass and bone density, as well as bigger lungs, higher oxygen levels in the blood and increased connections in the area of the brain responsible for spatial awareness.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is said to be 'apoplectic' and 'humiliated' following the network's decision to pay $16 million to settle a defamation lawsuit between ABC and Donald Trump.
The settlement, which includes $15 million towards a presidential foundation and $1 million for Trump's legal fees, has sparked a firestorm within the Disney-owned news organization.
Stephanopoulos, a former aide to Bill Clinton in the 1990s, was particularly incensed at being compelled to issue a public apology, according to the New York Post.
Insiders explained how the veteran anchor remains 'defiant' amid the fallout.
'George is a very guarded person. His circle of trust is so small, and a lot of them don't work [at ABC anymore]. He felt cornered and blindsided,' one insider said.
The anchor's frustration with the network couples both the personal and professional strain the episode has taken on him - and it appears to have boiled over as he has since deactivated his X account, cutting ties with his more than 2.3 million followers.
The decision to settle has also left many ABC News staffers seething.
'It's front-page news everywhere, yet ABC doesn't report on itself,' one employee said.
A lack of internal communication from company bosses has only served to fuel resentment following recent layoffs across multiple departments at the network.
'It's another gut punch. The sheer level of embarrassment—people are furious,' a staffer lamented.
The lawsuit stemmed from a March interview during which Stephanopoulos erroneously claimed Trump had been found liable for the rape in a civil case of writer E. Jean Carroll.
In that case, a jury actually found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll, awarding her $5 million in damages.
However, the jury did not conclude that Trump had committed rape as defined under New York law.
Stephanopoulos' phrasing - referring to Trump as being 'found liable for rape' -became the crux of the defamation suit.
Trump argued the statements were made with 'malice' and disregard for the legal distinction that the jury's verdict did not meet the state's specific definition of rape.
During the interview, Stephanopoulos pressed Mace, saying: 'Judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape.'
[FoxNews] NY governor says the deployment of 750 soldiers makes 'a psychological difference'
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday that hundreds of National Guard members have been deployed to patrol the New York City subway system this holiday season.
Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, Hochul confirmed that 750 National Guard members and 250 members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Police were recently sent to guard New York City train stations.
"It's clear to me, as I've heard from many people, that the presence of the National Guard has made not just a physical difference, but a psychological difference in how they feel about safety," Hochul said. "When people see a person in uniform… even our National Guard, they feel more secure."
Hochul previously unveiled her five-point subway safety plan in March, when she deployed 750 members of the National Guard to assist the New York Police Department (NYPD) with bag searches at entrances to busy train stations.
“ When I saw a spike [in crime]… I knew that we needed to quickly stabilize and ensure that we didn't start ending up in the wrong direction once again," Hochul said. "A lot of people didn't think would make a difference, and I'm incredibly proud of these individuals in uniform here with me today."
Hochul also touted a decrease in subway crime during the press conference on Wednesday. In March, the Democrat predicted that her plans would create a "deterrent effect."
"For people who are thinking about bringing a gun or knife on the subway, at least this creates a deterrent effect," Hochul said at the time. "They might be thinking, ‘You know what, it just may just not be worth it because I listened to the mayor and I listened to the governor, and they have a lot more people who are going to be checking my bags.’"
The decision comes as New York City officials continue to fight violent crime in the Big Apple. Earlier in December, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) report found that, in New York City alone, there are 58,000 illegal migrants who are convicted of or facing criminal charges.
Of the 58,626 criminal migrants, 1,153 are "suspected or known gang members," the report added.
Hochul previously received criticism for the move to add National Guard members to the subways. On an episode of "Outnumbered," Fox News co-host Emily Compagno called the move "too little, too late."
[TennesseeConservative] New Tennessee Bill Would Require Parents Of Juvenile Delinquents To Pay Fine For “Law Enforcement Expenses”
State Representative John Gillespie (R-Memphis-District 97) is sponsoring a new bill that would require Tennessee’s juvenile courts to charge parents for expenses incurred by law enforcement, if their child commits a third or subsequent offense.
House Bill 0038 (HB0038) as introduced, amends Tennessee Code Annotated Title 37 by requiring “a juvenile court, upon finding a child has committed a third or subsequent delinquent act, to enter an order of restitution against the parent, legal custodian, or guardian who had custody of the child at the time of the act for the expenses incurred by any law enforcement agency in responding to and investigating the delinquent act.”
So, if a child commits a third or subsequent offense, Tennessee courts would be required by law to charge the parents money.
While Tennessee courts would not be required to do this for a child’s second offense, they would be allowed to under this legislation.
According to the bill text, “If the child is found to be delinquent for a second delinquent act, the court may enter an order of restitution against the parent, legal custodian, or guardian who had custody of the child at the time of the act for the expenses incurred by any law enforcement agency in responding to and investigating the delinquent act.”
The restitution order would have to be at least $250 if the act committed by the child would be a misdemeanor for an adult, and at least $500 if the act committed by the child would be a felony for an adult.
Neither restitution order could exceed $1,000 under this legislation.
Additionally, the bill notes that if the child’s parent, legal custodian, or guardian is found indigent by the court, restitution may be waived.
However, if restitution is waived, the court is required to order the child’s parent, legal custodian, or guardian to perform community service work instead.
The amount of community service work that a child’s indigent parent or guardian would be required to perform is not established within this legislation.
If passed by the General Assembly, this legislation would take effect on July 1st, 2025.
The intention behind this bill is likely to decrease Tennessee’s juvenile recidivism rate by forcing parents and guardians of juvenile delinquents who are not taking much initiative, to take more responsibility for the actions of the child they are raising.
Perhaps, this is the push that some parents and guardians need to get more involved in preventing their child from committing criminal acts.
A potential concern however, may be that this requirement could put undue additional stress and pressure on some parents and guardians who are already actively trying to right the path of their child.
This concern may be especially magnified for indigent parents and guardians who on top of everything else, would be faced with a fine that they cannot pay or community service that they must take time off work and/or time away from other minor children to perform.
The bill does not currently have a Senate version or sponsor.
#1
Fabulous. They are going to target at-risk youth's parents and criminalize them. Most likely parent, the mom. Most of these kids are from broken homes w/o fathers.
What could go wrong with this demographic that does so well with the court system. You dont get community service unless you are found guilty and if you are found guilty, you will be some type of probation. This will create way more problems for at-risk broken home families than the bill will solve.
[Modernity] Reuters Fact Checks Babylon Bee Article Stating ‘Allahu Akbar’ Has Replaced ‘Cheerio Mate’ As UK’s Favoured Farewell.
Reuters is at it again with their team of ‘fact checkers’. They’re targeting The Babylon Bee, a satirical website, over an article that states the most favoured farewell in the UK, ‘cheerio mate’ has been replaced with ‘Allahu Akbar.’
The humorous satire piece states, “A recent poll conducted by the University of Oxford just revealed that ‘Allahu Akbar’ has officially replaced ‘Cheerio, mate!’ as the most popular greeting in the UK,” adding that experts called the results of the “survey” a “flippin’ landslide, old bean.”
Kyle Mann, the Editor-in-Chief of the Babylon Bee, shared the lunacy on X, noting that “Reuters fact-checkers reached out for comment on our Babylon Bee story about ‘Allahu Akbar’ replacing ‘Cheerio Mate’ in the UK. I tried to help them out.” Mann then shared screenshots of the ridiculous message he was sent by Reuters.
The message reads “I’m contacting you from the fact-checking desk at Reuters. We investigate false and misleading claims spreading on social media. Our fact checks can help curb the circulation of misinformation.”
By going after satire, OK.
The message continues, “We’re currently looking into a claim that, sharing a Babylon Bee article, says “Allahu Akbar” has officially replaced “Cheerio, mate!” as the most popular greeting in the UK. I have pasted it below for your convenience.”
“We plan to write a fact check to set the record straight. It’s clearly a satirical article but I am reaching out to you should you wish to challenge this or comment in the fact-check article. Please get in touch if you would like to,” it ridiculously adds.
If it’s “clearly a satirical article” why are they wasting time ‘fact checking’ it?
[X]
Reuters fact-checkers reached out for comment on our @TheBabylonBee story about 'Allahu Akbar' replacing 'Cheerio Mate' in the UK. I tried to help them out. pic.twitter.com/obHm9qB7cG
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Texas father says his four-month-old twins have been mistakenly deported along with their mother and siblings in an immigration mix-up.
Federico Arellano Jr says his wife Christina Salazar and their four kids were put on a plane on December 9 after missing a hearing with an immigration judge.
He says that he is a US Citizen - along with three of his four kids. It's unclear what Christina's status is.
Despite being born in Houston in October, the twins were sent to Mexico with their mother.
Now, Jr. is fighting to bring them all back, describing it as an ICE misunderstanding.
He said his children were crying as they and Salazar were taken into custody.
The distressed mother later told KHOU that Arellano Jr. was not allowed to say goodbye to the twins in the moment and she was unable to call for help after agents had ripped her cell phone away from her hands.
Attorneys Isaias Torres and Silvia Mintz, who are representing the family, said that Salazar was born in Mexico and married Arellano Jr. in 2019.
It's unclear how he obtained citizenship, or how long he has been living in the US.
The family believes they were harshly punished for simply missing the hearing.
Now, they are begging to be reunited.
'Because their babies are US citizens, they deserve to be here and get the attention they need - the medical attention they need,' one of their lawyers said.
'They were shocked and surprised that they were separated,' another added.
Trump and his incoming border czar Tom Homan have made no secret of their plans to implement mass deportations and family separations when they take office.
Homan makes no apologies for it either.
He has been demonized by Democrats and revered by Republicans for his direct approach.
The incoming administration is yet to address how it will handle scenarios like the Salazar family's.
Mr. Homan bluntly said the kids go with their parents. And newborns should be with their mother, if possible — fathers can’t nurse.
Homan previously revealed that he will first target Chicago in his mass deportations.
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Simple legal process.
A person involved in an illegal activity cannot benefit from the crime. Granting automatic citizenship to any female because they snuck across the border to have their kid(s). should be treated as such.
Remember, we have over 12 Million illegals here already.
If such Automatic citizenship is granted, then imagine what the SNAP/Welfare and Gov assistance roles will look like soon?
[FoxBusiness] Teamsters represents about 10,000 workers at ten Amazon facilities across the United States.
Thousands of Amazon workers organized under the Teamsters union went on strike at 6 a.m. Thursday after the company's "repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain."
Amazon Teamsters at seven facilities in Skokie, Illinois; New York City, Atlanta, San Francisco and Southern California are participating in the "largest strike" against the trillion-dollar company in American history, the union said in a news release. Workers at other facilities are prepared to join them.
Though Teamsters says it represents about 10,000 people across ten Amazon facilities in the U.S., the company doesn't recognize workers' affiliation with the union.
Amazon says the Teamsters union is "intentionally [misleading] the public" because they don't represent Amazon employees and drivers, company spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a statement to Fox Business.
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Great timing there Teamsters. Screwing the public to make your message. If the employees deserve it or not, you suck for making the customers Christmas a possible mess...
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Skokie, Illinois; New York City, Atlanta, San Francisco and Southern California
[MAIL] 'What happens after we die?' is the most existential question humans face.
But a man with one of the highest IQs in history claims to know the answer.
Chris Langan, 72, is an American horse rancher who is alleged to have an IQ between 190 and 210. That 'genius' score is 30 to 50 points higher than Albert Einstein's.
Langan has developed a hypothesis called the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU), which he says 'explains the connection between mind and reality.'
He believes that when we die, we transition from one form of being to another within the computational structure of reality, meaning the consciousness, or 'soul,' moves to another dimension or plane of existence we cannot access while alive.
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Moorehouse wrote about this stuff in the mid-90's. The effort gained visibility during the Red Brigade kidnapping and eventual rescue of US General James Lee Dozier from his apartment in Verona, Italy in December 17, 1981.
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Do you believe in Synchronicity?
What is the commonality btwn synchronicity, us, and the universe? To me, seems synchronicities are too structured and personal to be random and coincidence, so how are they created, formed, and personalized for us?
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Synchronicitiesare coincidences that seem to be meaningfully related but are not explained by conventional cause and effect. The term was introduced by analytical psychiatrist Carl Jung, who believed that synchronicities reflect deep psychological processes and can carry messages.
Here are some examples of synchronicities:
Having similar thoughts with someone who is far away
Having a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens
Receiving a text message from a friend you were just thinking about
Some say that synchronicities can be a sign that you are on the right path. Others say that synchronicities can be a way to mark your life and journey.
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how are they created, formed, and personalized for us
For us?
Interesting.
I had assumed/imagined they were deceitful artifacts of the anthropomorphism engine, correlation of the unassociated dissimilar into a recognizable pattern, fractalized for categorization and long term memory storage.
A face in an apple, on someone that you meet moments later.
Knowing that the phone would ring. Anticipating a call from someone you know.
Calling someone that was just reaching for the phone to call you.
Having exact change for a purchase in your pocket.
Intuiting the form of the curve of a thrown baseball as a partial differential equation solution in your CRC solution book.
Sometimes, time isn't linear when tagged to the memory of a sensory event.
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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos is said to be 'apoplectic' and 'humiliated' following the network's decision to pay $16 million to settle a defamation lawsuit between ABC and Donald Trump.
[FoxBusiness] Teamsters represents about 10,000 workers at ten Amazon facilities across the United States.
