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Letitia James Has a Second Criminal Relative Living in Her Other House


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reported on top New York law enforcement officer Letitia James housing her
criminal fugitive grand-niece in her Virginia home. It turns out the story was
not unique.

James’s other grand-niece, a pregnant X-rated OnlyFans star with a previous
felony charge of “malicious wounding,” reportedly resides in James’s second
property within minutes of the first. Virginia law defines “malicious wounding”
as a crime in which a person “shoots, stabs, cuts or wounds any other person,
or by any means causes bodily injury, with the intent to maim, disfigure,
disable or kill.”

James allegedly arranged the house’s mortgage by claiming it would be her
“principal residence” despite her job being 350 miles north. She included Cayla
Thompson-Hairston, the criminal grand-niece, in the agreement.Read more
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JB Pritzker Is an Exceptional Gambler


Donald Trump plays “God Bless the USA
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Pritzker runs for president, we suspect he’ll go with “The Gambler
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The Illinois governor released a batch of tax records this week that showed he
raked in over$1.4 million at a Las Vegas casino in 2024. The exact games he
played are not known.

Gambling in the Prairie State has massively increased under the billionaire’s
watch. Pritzker signed legislation to legalize sports betting, add six new
casinos, and allow tens of thousands of slot machines in bars and restaurants
in 2019.Read more
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DEBATE NIGHT: Zohran Mamdani, Jay Jones Both Take the Stage


Two of America’s most highly publicized political races held debates last
night, one featuring New York’s Zohran Mamdani, and the other Virginia’s Jay
Jones.

As he has throughout his campaign, Mamdani centered his focus on economics and
the desperate need to make young Americans’ lives more affordable. He largely
failed to explain how he would pay for his programs.

No matter how insane the self-described socialist’s ideas are, we can’t help
but respect his willingness to debate Andrew Cuomo. He already trounced the
former governor in the Democrat primary, meaning he really didn’thave to go
through this charade again.

Jay Jones, meanwhile, got ripped for promoting a plan to keep “children safe”
despite previously fantasizing about his political opponent’s wife watching her
kids die. He apologized for his deranged comments during his debate, saying he
is “embarrassed,” “ashamed,” and “sorry.”




Read more about the New York debate here
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Democrats Plot John Fetterman’s Ouster



Democrats are tired of John Fetterman.

Prominent Pennsylvania party members are maneuvering to run against the
“progressive” senator in a 2028 primary, threatening to tear their faction
apart in America’s largest battleground state.

Fetterman’s willingness to humanize Donald Trump has caused droves of
liberals to sour on him since he won office in 2022. They were completely okay
sending him to the Senate when hecouldn’t talk
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conforming to their rhetoric that the president is America’s Hitler, they say
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Minnesota Schools Ban White Students from Taking Classes on “BLACK Culture”
and “BLACK Queens”


White and Asian students hoping to enroll in Minneapolis public high school
classes on black culture are out of luck. They are banned from the courses.

South High School’s current curriculum guide explicitly lists multiple “BLACK
Culture” classes, including one for “BLACK Queens,” as off-limits to whites.
They are only open to “All black male students" and "All black female
students," respectively. Other nearby educational institutions offer similar
segregated programs.

“It is extremely hard to imagine how this could possibly be legal,” civil
rights attorney Dan Morenoff said of the policy.

We’re no lawyers, but we concur. Wasn’t the entire point of the Civil Rights
Movement that all Americans should be treated equally, regardless of skin color?
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Netanyahu’s Popularity Increases After Hostage Deal


Benjamin Netanyahu’s popularity is on the rise.

Israeli media reported the prime minister’s favorability rating at its
highest mark since before October 7th on Thursday, projecting that his party
would win 34 parliamentary seats if the country held its elections today. The
rival party would receive just 20. A separate poll showed Netanyahu with a 58%
approval rating, 36% higher than his closest rival’s.

The irony of Bibi’s newfound stardom is that he nearly prevented its
existence. This hasn’t been reported much, but the prime minister did not want
to agree to the peace deal that sparked his rise in the polls. Donald Trump had
to threaten to cut America’s Israel funding to get him on board. Remember that
the next time you see Netanyahu disingenuously lauding his “amazing
partnership” with the president. The entire thing is a farce. If it were up to
Bibi, he’d still be dropping American bombs in Gaza.Read more
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Voting Machine Company Indicted in Bribery Investigation


Voting machine company Smartmatic is run by crooks, according to federal
prosecutors.

The Department of Justice charged the firm with money laundering and other
crimes on Thursday, linking the offenses to seven-figure bribes its executives
allegedly paid election officials in the Philippines.

Smartmatic made the illegal payments to obtain a contract to help run the
2016 Philippine election, according to the indictment. If true, the company
essentially bought its way into the island nation’s political system.
Prosecutors also accused a former Smartmatic executive of bribing Venezuela’s
election chief by giving her a luxury home in Caracas.

A case hearing is scheduled for next month. Read more
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John Bolton Charged in Classified Documents Probe


A federal grand jury indicted former national security adviser John Bolton on
Thursday for allegedly mishandling classified documents amid his exit from the
first Trump administration.

The indictment charges him with eight counts of transmission of national
defense information and 10 counts of retention of national defense information,
saying he "abused his position" in the White House by “sharing more than a
thousand pages of [secret] information” with unauthorized individuals. It also
accuses him of storing classified files in his Maryland home.

“I think he’s a bad guy, yeah, he’s a bad guy. Too bad, but that’s the way it
goes,” Donald Trump said of Bolton, who denies any wrongdoing.

The 76-year-old faces a maximum of 10 years in prison on each count. Read more
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Commentary


Terrorist Sympathizer? How about Narco-Terrorist Sympathizer?


If there’s one thing to know about neocons, it’s that they’re always looking
for their next war.

Anyone who thought zealots like Lindsey Graham would abandon their
bloodthirst after the ink dried on the president’s Middle East peace deal was
only kidding themselves. Foreign wars are what these people live for. They’reall
they live for. And they appear to have found their next target: Venezuela.

There’s an alarmingly real chance DC war hawks drag our country into a regime
change war in the South American nation. Like Vladimir Putin, forces in
Washingtonhate Nicolás Maduro, and they see the deaths of U.S. troops as a
small price to pay for his ouster.

How serious is our government about starting this war? We’ll let its behavior
speak for itself. America has moved a striking number of military assets into
the Caribbean, including four destroyers, a guided missile cruiser, an attack
submarine, and a flight of F-35 multirole fighters. The Pentagon has also sent
roughly 10,000 troops to the region, atrio of U.S. B-52 Bombers flew into
Venezuelan-managed airspace
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on Wednesday, and the White House has authorizedcovert CIA operations
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in the country. If a foreign power didany of those things to us, our leaders
would unquestionably see it as a sign of impending war.

Could removing Maduro help the United States? Sure, maybe it would lessen
America’s drug crisis. But maybe it wouldn’t, and like any regime change war,
there’s always the risk that whoever succeeds the Venezuelan leader could be
worse. It’s funny how the people pushing for intervention never seem to mention
that possibility. But let’s table that conversation for now. Instead, it’s
worth highlighting the ridiculous game this conflict’s backers are playing to
coerce the public into backing their dangerous agenda. It goes something like
this, following a very similar playbook…

NEOCON: You wholeheartedly endorse sending U.S. troops to die in the name of
overthrowing the Venezuelan government, right Mr. and Mrs. America?

AVERAGE AMERICAN: What? I don’t think so. I’m pretty tired of foreign wars.
Could Washington focus its resources on our country instead?

NEOCON: Oh. We get it. You’re a Maduro stooge. A narco-terrorist sympathizer.
A secret socialist. And above all else, you are deeply unpatriotic. How dare
you not support our troops.

AVERAGE AMERICAN: Huh? A narco-terrorist sympathizer? I don’t even know what
that means. But I am supporting our troops. I’m the one saying they shouldn’t
get their limbs blown off in a new Washington vanity project war.

NEOCON: Let me stop you right there. This conversation is over. I don’t
platform narco-terrorist sympathizers. You are what’s wrong with America.

That dialogue is hardly an exaggeration. Glenn Greenwald, one of the most
clear-thinking journalists in media, learned the hard way this week when a
pro-war activist posing as a reporter
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with the narco-terrorists.”

As Glenn said in response, this happens every time America considers hurling
itself into some new faraway war. The conflict’s backers exert maximum pressure
on the U.S. public to support their cause, then viciously smear those opposed
as secret supporters oftheir enemy. The cycle has repeated itself since the
days of the Founding Fathers.

1793. France and England were at war, and many of George Washington’s
advisors wanted him to throw Americans into the fray. The president wisely
refrained, believing the move would be too much for his new nation to endure
and recognizing that the Anglo/French conflict was not related to America’s
interests.

For making that decision, the era’s pro-war elite depicted Washington, who
had literally just defeated the Red Coats in the Revolutionary War, as a shill
for the British crown. We’re not sure if they recognized the irony.

1917. Despite Woodrow Wilson winning the presidency on the platform of not
entangling the U.S. in World War I, nearly the entire political world was
suddenly clamoring for involvement. But not everyone. Republican lawmaker
Robert La Follette served as the Senate’s strongest anti-war voice, arguing
that “Collective homicide can not establish human rights. For our country to
enter the European war would be treason to humanity."

That didn’t mean La Follette condoned German submarine attacks or any of the
rogue nation’s military activities. It meant he didn’t want American blood
spilled over matters that lay an ocean away from his country’s shores.

The media immediately attacked the senator as “decidedly pro-German [and]
un-American,” “nothing short of pathetic,” and “lending himself to the
encouragement of autocracy.” Over 100,000 Americans went on to die in the war
he desperately fought to prevent.

2001. Frothing neocons attacked Barbara Lee as a “traitor” to her nation for
being the only member of Congress to oppose America’s disastrous Afghanistan
invasion. In hindsight, she was the only one who was right.

Then of course there’s today. Think the U.S. should stay away from Ukraine?
You’ll be labeled a Putin stooge. Tired of funding and participating in endless
conflicts in the Middle East?Pro-Hamas. Antisemite. Wannabe Nazi. “Woke Reich
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rather not add a new war in Venezuela to America’s already overflowing docket?
That’s it. We see what you’re doing. You’re in bed with the narco-terrorists.

Despite being levied for hundreds of years, these attacks fall completely
flat. Rejecting the establishment’s perpetual urge to send our soldiers to die
in the name of foreign interests does not align you with our country’s enemies.
It makes you pro-America. That is true no matter what the bloodthirsty war cult
says. Deep down, its members know it.



 

Videos of the Day

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Mitch McConnell takes a tumble. This is sad.
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WHOOPS: The View host thinks Jay Jones is a Republican.
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This Day in History


October 17, 1931: Al Capone is convicted of tax evasion. An Illinois jury
found the notorious gangster guilty on 22 criminal charges, yielding him an
11-year prison sentence, a $50,000 fine, and an additional $215,000 charge to
cover back taxes. Federal agents targeted Capone with a tax case because of the
difficulty of convicting him of more serious offenses like murder and narcotics
trafficking. The IRS discovered ledgers detailing the mobster’s illegal
earnings during its lengthy investigation, arming prosecutors with strong
evidence to pursue their case. Selecting a trial jury took longer than expected
due to allegations that the defendant’s men had bribed the original pool.
Capone spent eight years behind bars and died in 1947.


 

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