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BlueWaveNeverEnd's JournalRangers continue searching for 2 people found destroying boulders at Lake Mead
despite super clear video, they haven't found these guys yet.
https://www.fox5vegas.com/video/2024/04/23/rangers-continue-searching-2-people-found-destroying-boulders-lake-mead/
Column: Republicans aren't protecting elections. They don't want democracy
The next time Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stands in front of a microphone to talk about election integrity, I want you to remember this: Nearly a third of voters in Louisiana are Black, and yet Black voters had control over less than 20% of the state’s congressional districts. White voters make up less than 60% of the electorate yet had control over more than 80% of the power.
When the Democratic governor vetoed attempts to suppress the Black vote, the Republican state Legislature overrode the veto. When a federal judge said another map should be drawn, the Supreme Court delayed action until it had decided a similar question about Alabama.
In that state, Black people are more than a quarter of the population but had control over just one of the state’s seven districts. For two years, Alabama fought to dilute the Black vote, until the highest court of the land rejected the state’s final plea for a gerrymandered map.
Johnson’s party has been working to suppress Black votes for decades, so what is he talking about when he trumpets “election integrity”?
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Those Southern states have been consistent in their agenda. In Rarick’s day some of the bad actors, including him, were Democrats, but now the cause has been taken up by Republicans. And why is today’s GOP so concerned about “protecting” elections? Why are they fighting so hard to stop democracy? Because they don’t want a democratic outcome. They want white control.
Johnson wants you to believe it’s the desperate migrants and asylum seekers at the southern border who are the greatest threat to democracy.
No, Mr. Speaker: It is and always has been racism. It’s baked into our nation.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-04-23/republican-election-integrity-bill-vote-fraud-democracy
Search continues as Washburn officer charged with lying about taking missing person to hospital
Washburn Police Sgt. Chandler Cole said he had no comment when reached by The Associated Press
Maine police officer arrested after accusation of lying about missing person: Reports
Sgt. Chandler Cole with the Washburn, Maine police resigned after he was arrested on March 29, according to reports.
A Maine police officer has been charged with multiple crimes after he was accused of falsifying and forging evidence related to a missing-persons case, according to reports.
Washburn Police Sgt. Chandler Cole resigned after his arrest March 29. He was charged with aggravated forgery, tampering with public records or information, falsifying physical evidence and unsworn falsification, according to The Associated Press.
His arrest came after an investigation by the Aroostook County Sheriff's Office into the disappearance of 39-year-old Erik Foote. Foote, from Washburn, was reported missing Feb. 6 and was last seen walking along a road in Jan. 30. According to reporting from WAGM, the last person known to have interacted with Foote was Cole.
After the Washburn police chief retired in January, the town with a population of just over 1,600 is deciding whether to keep a police department.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/15/chandler-cole-police-sergeant-arrested-washburn-maine/73324518007/
Search continues as Washburn officer charged with lying about taking missing person to hospital
Police Sgt. Chandler Cole reported he had picked up Erik Foote and dropped him off at a convenience store, but he told Foote's parents he took him to the hospital.
WASHBURN — A police officer accused of lying about a missing-person case was charged with several crimes, including falsifying a report in which he claimed he had taken the missing man to a hospital, police said.
Washburn Police Sgt. Chandler Cole resigned after being charged with aggravated forgery, tampering with public records or information, falsifying physical evidence, and unsworn falsification, according to court records. He was arrested on March 29.
Cole said he had no comment when reached by the Associated Press.
The charges, first reported by WAGM-TV, stem from the case of a missing person who appeared to be distressed when seen walking along a road on Jan. 30.
Cole reported that he had picked up Erik Foote and dropped him off at a convenience store, but he told Foote’s parents he took him to the hospital.
An investigation concluded Cole altered his report to reflect a hospital drop-off. However, there is no hospital record to support the claim.
https://www.pressherald.com/2024/04/13/search-continues-as-washburn-officer-is-charged-with-lying-about-taking-missing-person-to-hospital/
'What's The Difference Between That And Camping Out?': Thomas Questions Lawyer In Homelessness Case
Disgraced 'crypto bro' SBF to turn on celebrities Tom Brady and Larry David
Disgraced “crypto king” Sam Bankman-Fried is set to turn on celebrities including Tom Brady and Larry David in a new class-action lawsuit after they endorsed his failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
Bankman-Fried is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence on fraud charges after he was found guilty of lying to investors and customers of his company FTX.
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Since then, a group of investors and customers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Bankman-Fried and the celebrities he recruited to endorse FTX, in an effort to recover some of their losses following the collapse of the crypto firm.
The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court’s Southern District of Florida, alleges that Bankman-Fried and celebrities including NFL star Tom Brady and comedian Larry David are responsible for around $11bn of losses to American consumers.
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Bankman-Fried was also named in the lawsuit but, on Friday, agreed to cooperate with the plaintiffs in the case in exchange for them dropping their civil liability claims against him.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/tom-brady-sam-bankman-fried-ftx-lawsuit-b2532771.html
Sports stars Stephen Curry, Shaquille O’Neal and Naomi Osaka are also among those named in the lawsuit after starring in commercials promoting FTX.
Yale students block intersection all day
pictures from Columbia University
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik has faced calls for her resignation if she can't get the protesters under control
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13334535/White-House-blasts-pro-Palestine-protestors-Columbia-University.html
Montana city grapples with rise of unhoused people living in vehicles
In some cities with growing numbers of people experiencing homelessness, the issue goes beyond encampments in public places — they’re also coping with more people living in cars and RVs parked on city streets. City leaders in Bozeman, Montana, are dealing with the tensions brought on by this more visible display of homelessness. Joe Lesar of Montana PBS reports.
man clobbers women as they walk by.. Sherman Oaks
FAA opens investigation, pilots pulled from active duty after Colorado Rockies coach posted video from UA cockpit
https://twitter.com/RalphatTahoe/status/1780410755554439569The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation, according to several media reports, after Colorado Rockies hitting coach Hensley “Bam Bam” Meulens posted a video on Instagram showing himself in the cockpit on the Rockies’ flight from Denver to Toronto on April 10.
In a since-deleted video, Meulens is seen sitting in the captain’s seat of the cockpit, pointing over to the first officer at one point. Meulens and another man joke about him landing the plane and starting descent. Meulens’ post had several elements to it, but the recovered footage cuts off after swiping to a second video that briefly shows the cockpit bathed in sunshine.
United Airlines spokesperson Anoushah Rasta confirmed the investigation to SFGATE on Friday and said the airline has since removed the pilots from active duty.
“We’re deeply disturbed by what we see in that video, which appears to show an unauthorized person in the flight deck at cruise altitude while the autopilot was engaged,” United’s wrote in a statement. “As a clear violation of our safety and operational policies, we’ve reported the incident to the FAA and have withheld the pilots from service while we conduct an investigation.”
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/faa-investigate-united-cockpit-video-sf-giants-19412277.php
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