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April 14, 2024

Federal authorities are looking for two men who were caught on video damaging protected rock formations at Lake Mead Nat

The girl seems to be saying: Daddy stop it.



Federal authorities are looking for two men who were caught on video damaging protected rock formations at Lake Mead National Recreation Area last weekend.

Who knows these asshats?




https://twitter.com/GuntherGill/status/1779319373208977715

April 14, 2024

Trump: On Monday in New York City. I will be forced to sit fully gagged. I'm not allowed to talk. Can you believe it? T





Trump: On Monday in New York City. I will be forced to sit fully gagged. I'm not allowed to talk. Can you believe it? They want to take away my constitutional right to talk
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1779298156405989389





https://twitter.com/Out5p0ken/status/1779362435171766422



@atrupar
"Just last week it was reported that an illegal adlinthin-- and you just look at thisss, what's happening" -- Trump
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1779321784333926533



He’s clearly never read any history. Neither of those was beautiful in any way. So he just ad libs utter nonsense. Nonsensically.
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Acyn @Acyn
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Trump: Gettysburg. What an unbelievable battle. That was the battle of Gettysburg. What an unbelievable I mean, it was so much and so interesting and so vicious and horrible and so beautiful and so many different ways… Gettysburg wow

https://twitter.com/genej101/status/1779326093192786119



Trump tonight: “We were the most respected country in the world. We were the most respected that we were ever respected. We were never more respected than we were 4 years ago”

FACT CHECK: Under Trump, we were the 1st country openly laughed at by the world:
https://twitter.com/BigBlueWaveUSA/status/1779320403695210699





https://twitter.com/Roshan_Rinaldi/status/1779289601120608503





April 14, 2024

Westfield Bondi mall attack: Sydney knife suspect identified by police

Source: bbc



Westfield Bondi mall attack: Sydney knife suspect identified by police
11 minutes ago
By Jay Savage, Katy Watson and Simon Atkinson,in Sydney


A knife-wielding man who killed six people in a Sydney shopping centre before being shot dead has been identified by Australian police.

Joel Cauchi, 40, sent the crowded Westfield Bondi Junction...................

Five women and a man died. Several others, including a baby, were injured.

Authorities said the attack was most likely "related to the mental health of the individual involved".
.........................

He said Mr Cauchi, who was from Queensland, was previously known to police and had bought a storage unit in Sydney.

The assistant commissioner reiterated that the attacker did not appear to be motivated by "any particular ideology or motivation".......................................






Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68810428



What a horrible mess.



'A knife-wielding man who killed six people in a Sydney shopping centre before being shot dead has been identified by Australian police.

Joel Cauchi, 40, walked through the crowded Westfield Bondi Junction complex...fatally wounding five women and a man.'

https://twitter.com/timesIguess/status/1779285805388734612



Seriously! His name Joel Cauchi #BondiJunction #bondiattack

https://twitter.com/TruthSeeka1/status/1779285659427262465



SYDNEY POLICE CONFIRM MASS STABBING WAS NOT TERRORISM.

The man was known to law
enforcement and did not hold "terrorist motivations or ideology"

Translation: They found out it wasn’t a Muslim and so are no longer calling it a terrorist attack.

Now you know, for the exact same attack they use the word “terrorist” if the perpetrator is a Muslim.

Mainstream media exposed
https://twitter.com/pheeqy/status/1779209110757511397



https://twitter.com/Justdiscourse/status/1779209792294363229
April 13, 2024

🚨BREAKING President Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office tonight, following Iran's attack on Israel

no time was given. I am glad our Commander in Chief will speak tonight.


🚨BREAKING

President Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office tonight, following Iran’s attack on Israel

https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1779261636349440409

April 13, 2024

Davidson, (R, OH) & Republicans Dryer Reliability Act. Unreliable dryers are ruining the country 👀


It makes me sick that these Repugs are making a salary with crap work!!



Rep. Warren Davidson discusses the House Republicans legislative agenda for next week: “We’re going to defend the freedom to own the right kinds of appliances.”

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1779109243179700418


https://twitter.com/thiruverseII/status/1779111279183188097
Dryer Reliability Act.

Unreliable dryers are ruining the country 👀
https://twitter.com/BDeMayo/status/1779109511464169823


My jeans didn't dry with the rest of my load.

This
Cannot
Stand


https://twitter.com/BDeMayo/status/1779110566671306932








April 13, 2024

Audio recordings of James Crumbley's allegedly threatening jail calls released

Source: Detroit Free Press





Tresa Baldas Gina Kaufman 11.25 p.m. April 11, 2024



Days after James Crumbley was sentenced to prison for his role in his son's deadly Oxford High School shooting, authorities released audio recordings of jailhouse calls in which Crumbley allegedly threatened Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald.

Editor’s note: The calls were edited by the Free Press to remove curse words.

In one of the calls, he acknowledges that he is being recorded by jail authorities — but rants anyway, stating:

"Yeah, Karen McDonald. You're going down. Yeah you stupid bitches at the f------ jail, go ahead. Record this call. send it to Karen McDonald. Tell her how James Crumbley is going to f------ take her down. She will not have a law license when I get done with her. Karen McDonald will be working at f------ McDonalds ... cause she ain't gonna be able to get a f------ job anywhere else."

The calls date back to 2022, and include profanity-laced tirades such as: "She really got it coming to her when I f------ get out" and, "Your ass is going down and you better be f------ scared.”

An investigator with the Oakland County Sheriff's Office who has reviewed the recordings wrote in a report:.......................................................................

















Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2024/04/12/audio-recordings-james-crumbley-threatening-jail-calls/73302495007/



I initially had very mixed feelings about the parents getting these long sentences.
But in reading this article and these quote below--they--or the father is a dangerous man --
His words could lead others to all forms of violence--verbal or other wise.
Which made me think--umm.. just like Trump--





"Crumbley's lawyer, Mariell Lehman, has maintained that James Crumbley was never threatening to physically harm McDonald, but only venting his frustrations over how she handled his case, and that he wanted to see her eventually lose her law license."



https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1779098005632626720
April 13, 2024

DeSantis signs bills targeting civilian review boards, recording police up close

Source: OrlandoSentinal.com


Gov. Ron DeSantis is touting Florida as a state friendly to law enforcement. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel)

By Skyler Swisher April 12, 2024 at 4:37 p.m.

Trumpeting his support of law enforcement, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed bills on Friday that will limit the authority of police civilian review boards and restrict bystanders from getting too close to officers during investigations.

HB 601 bars citizen review boards from investigating allegations of officer misconduct. The review boards can continue to operate but only in an advisory role that provides input on policies and procedures, not individual officer actions.

The other measure (SB 184) creates a 25-foot buffer around police officers, firefighters and emergency personnel when they are working. Bystanders who disregard a verbal warning and approach with an intent to interfere, harass or threaten could be arrested and charged with a misdemeanor.

Backed by a line of officers, DeSantis touted both measures as creating a better climate for law enforcement and accused other states of fomenting hostility toward the police...................

Read more: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/04/12/desantis-signs-bills-targeting-civilian-review-boards-recording-police-up-close/






Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis approved controversial pro-law enforcement legislation on Friday that effectively guts citizens’ ability to investigate police misconduct.

https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1778880171845587339






https://twitter.com/grantstern/status/1778885678006239513



April 13, 2024

Kamala Harris hammers Trump on abortion in Arizona visit

Source: nbc news




The state’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that an 1864 near-total ban on abortion is enforceable.

Updated April 12, 2024, 5:27 PM CDT
By Megan Lebowitz and Zoë Richards

Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday went after former President Donald Trump in a visit to Arizona highlighting reproductive rights just days after the state's Supreme Court ruled that an 1864 near-total abortion ban is enforceable.

Harris slammed Trump over his record and rhetoric on abortion, calling him the “architect of this healthcare crisis,” as the court ruling brings the vital swing state to the forefront of abortion politics.

“President Donald Trump hand-picked three members of the United States Supreme Court because he intended for them to overturn Roe, and as he intended they did,” she said in Tucson.

Harris also pointed to Trump's previous comments about how women who seek abortions should be punished.

"Joe Biden and I trust women to know what is in their own best interest," the vice president said. "And women trust all of us, to fight to protect their most fundamental freedoms. So Arizona, this November, up and down the ballot, reproductive freedom is at stake and you have the power to protect it with your vote.".....................................

Read more: https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=mnet&hsimp=yhs-001&type=type9040536-spa-6095-84500&param1=6095&param2=84500&p=Kamala+Harris+news



So glad Kamala Harris is out there hammering Trump on abortion! We have to keep this issue alive.



https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1779042431037501639
April 13, 2024

Look at how hard Trump pulls Lee Greenwood toward him as he shakes hands and dowes it 3 times!!

what a creep!! I am no lover of Greenwood, but that is just disgusting!!





Trump and his partner Lee Greenwood celebrating how much money they are making selling Bibles.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1778921002212237557

April 12, 2024

"He [@MattGaetz] used to walk around the cloakroom showing people porno of him and his latest girlfriend,"



“He used to walk around the cloakroom showing people porno of him and his latest girlfriend,” one former Republican lawmaker told me. “He’d show me a video, and I’d say, ‘That’s great, Matt.’ Like, what kind of a reaction do you want?”
https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1778574271930843406


https://twitter.com/SmindCrypto/status/1778577397019013545


https://twitter.com/terrycameron21/status/1778574507696943546



There is LONG article in the Atlantic today about Gaetz:


https://x.com/moonbreeze2/status/1778590984219119979




Matt Gaetz Is Winning

But what’s the prize he’s after?


https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/matt-gaetz-house-republican-congress-profile/677915/




By Elaine Godfrey
Matt Gaetz, wearing a red tie under a black overcoat, smiles for a camera while standing in front of an elevator lobby.
Photograph by Brian Finke for The Atlantic


April 11, 2024, 6 AM ET



................

Earlier this week, McCarthy lashed out at Gaetz, telling an interviewer that he’d been ousted from the speakership because “one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old, an ethics complaint that started before I ever became speaker. And that’s illegal, and I’m not gonna get in the middle of it. Now, did he do it or not? I don’t know. But Ethics was looking at it. There’s other people in jail because of it. And he wanted me to influence it.”

In response, Gaetz posted on X: “Kevin McCarthy is a liar. That’s why he is no longer speaker.”....................................





..................From there, the TV invites flooded in. Gaetz would go on any network to talk about anything as long as the broadcast was live and he knew the topic ahead of time. He had become a loud Trump defender—introducing a resolution to force Special Counsel Robert Mueller to resign and even joining an effort to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. A white board in his office displayed a list of media outlets and two columns of numbers: how many hits Gaetz wanted to do each week at any given outlet and how many he’d already completed. Around his office, he liked to quote from one of his favorite movies, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, in a faux southern accent: “We ain’t one-at-a-timin’ here. We’re mass communicating!’’

Soon, the president was calling. Trump asked Gaetz for policy advice, and suggested ways that Gaetz could highlight the MAGA agenda on television. Sometimes, when the president rang and Gaetz wasn’t near the phone, his aides would sprint around the Capitol complex looking for him, in a race against Trump’s short attention span, another former staffer told me. Gaetz claimed in his book that he once even took a call from Trump while “in the throes of passion.”...................








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