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January 22, 2021

Can Dominion take down OAN? Could their lawsuit put them out of business?

I was just thinking about the Hulk Hogan lawsuit - backed by trump supporter Peter Thiel, put Gawker out of business. For anyone that doesn't know, Gawker was one of the top gossip sites a few years ago. I bit like TMZ I suppose. It was shocking when that lawsuit pretty much buried them. Granted, I don't know what their financial status was or how wealthy OAN's owners are.

Anyone know anything about OAN's owners? I know Faux news could withstand losing and having to pay a huge sum.

January 22, 2021

Freshman Rep stops trump last minute ILLEGAL deportation of man to place he is not a citizen


In one of its last acts, Trump administration tried to deport man to Haiti who has never been there

For the second time in his stateless life, Paul Pierrilus faced the possibility this week of being deported to a country he has never known, never lived in and that has never recognized him.
The 40-year-old New York man was minutes away from boarding one of the last deportation flights of the Trump administration before a relentless international effort by his family, attorney and a fortuitous connection to a freshman U.S. congressman helped him evade removal.

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Pierrilus found himself in such a situation. The financial consultant was born in the French territory of St. Martin to Haitian parents and immigrated to the United States as a child. But neither Haiti nor the French government automatically confer citizenship to children born outside its borders.

So Pierrilus was stuck in limbo, a citizen of nowhere and with no country willing to give him legal status. Precise data is elusive, but the Center for Migration Studies of New York estimates about 218,000 people in the United States are stateless or at risk of being so.

Katrina Bleckley, staff attorney with the Haitian Bridge Alliance, said a drug offense put Pierrilus on the radar of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE tried to deport Pierrilus’s brother, Daniel Pierrilus, who is in an identical immigration situation. But when the brother arrived in Port-au-Prince in 2006, Haitian officials sent him back, family said.

[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/in-one-of-its-last-acts-trump-administration-tried-to-deport-man-to-haiti-who-has-never-been-there/2021/01/20/738d88e4-5b49-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html|
January 21, 2021

I can see clearly now - Jimmy Cliff

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January 21, 2021

That really broke me - 1st black woman VP, 1st black and Jewish senators from GA and 1st Latino

senator from CA. Democrats, I am so proud of you. We will drag the rest of this country along kicking and screaming. Their hate will not win.

January 17, 2021

Franklin Graham, has compared Republicans who voted for Trump's impeachment to Judas

Franklin Graham, slams Republicans for taking '30 pieces of silver' from Nancy Pelosi in Trump impeachment 'betrayal'

The controversial evangelist, Franklin Graham, has compared Republicans who voted for Trump's impeachment to Judas.

In a Facebook post, Graham compared the 10 Republicans who voted for Trump's impeachment to Judas Iscariot, the notorious apostle who betrayed Jesus after being paid 30 pieces of silver.

He began: "Shame, shame on the ten Republicans who joined with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in impeaching President Trump yesterday. After all that he has done for our country, you would turn your back and betray him so quickly?

"And these ten, from his own party, joined in the feeding frenzy. It makes you wonder what the thirty pieces of silver were that Speaker Pelosi promised for this betrayal," he continued later in the post.
[link:https://www.businessinsider.com/franklin-graham-gop-who-voted-to-impeach-trump-like-judas-iscariot-2021-1|

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January 17, 2021

Not the first time Giuliani incited an angry mob to storm a govt building

Rev Al showed this clip on his show yesterday. People keep asking what happened to Rudy, he's the same POS he's always been.

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When former New York Mayor David Dinkins supported an independent civilian complaint review board in September 1992, police protested violently and engaged in actions, according to a police department report, that were "unruly, mean-spirited and perhaps criminal."38 An officers' protest, sponsored by the police union, involved thousands of officers demonstrating at City Hall, blocking traffic to the Brooklyn Bridge, and shouting racial epithets; current Mayor Rudolph Giuliani participated in the protest.

Some officers involved in the protest's offensive acts were disciplined, and the police commissioner stated that the nature of the demonstration "raised serious questions about the department's willingness and ability to police itself."40 If further evidence of violent propensities were needed, an incident right after the City Hall protest provided it. As police were leaving the protest, several off-duty officers, all in civilian clothes, assaulted a man on the subway who had stepped on one of the officer's feet. The man claimed that when he attempted to apologize, the offended officer tried to punch him, and that in self-defense he then pulled out a razor and cut the officer's face. Six officers then reportedly beat and kicked him, and he suffered a broken jaw; several witnesses went directly to the police station to complain. In this case, the department did provide some accountability. Two of the officers were charged with felony assault, leading to one conviction on a misdemeanor charge that led to the officer's dismissal.
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January 12, 2021

WTF??? Why was this nut so close to Schumer?

After all that has happened?

January 12, 2021

Man who threatened to kill Pelosi was banned from private school for threatening Jon Meacham

Lovett graduate accused of threatening Pelosi also banned from school over violent threats

A man with Atlanta ties arrested after the U.S. Capitol riots in Washington for making a death threat toward House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also was banned from the local private school he attended.

Cleveland “Cleve” Meredith Jr., one of several individuals charged with federal crimes following the Jan. 6 riots, is a 1986 graduate of The Lovett School in Buckhead. He was barred from the campus in 2019 after threatening to harm guest speaker Jon Meacham when he came on campus for a March 26, 2019 lecture.

In a statement, the school stated, “Lovett severed its relationship with this alumnus and banned him from campus in 2019 due to threats of violence.”

[link:https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/northside_sandy_springs/news/lovett-graduate-accused-of-threatening-pelosi-also-banned-from-school-over-violent-threats/article_1cd6e854-54f2-11eb-be4f-fb89d993fbb0.html|

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