The bitter leftist is running again for the seat she lost by six points.
Nina Turner is running again against Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH), the former Cuyahoga County councilwoman who trounced her in the 2021 special primary election. Brown went on to win the primary and easily defeated her Republican rival.
Turner announced Wednesday that she plans to run for Greater Cleveland’s U.S. congressional district in 2022.
Brown backed President Joe Biden and his agenda. Brown said that her goal is delivering results and not noise. It helped her especially with Black voters.
Turner, on the other hand is now trying to retool her campaign to be more inclined to the Black constituents she tossed aside. Her damn campaign was totally devoted to white leftists.
In a video released on Thursday, Turner decided to play the same formula Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) played in the 2020 presidential race. Turner decided to cast blame on everyone.
Nina Turner’s campaign says it raised more than $100k after her announcement yesterday, comparable to her best fundraising days during the #OH11 special last year.
“When we look over the course of last year, families are still struggling — with higher gas and food prices, stagnant wages and shrinking benefits, while corporations make record profits," Turner said in a news release from her campaign. "We can get an agenda through Congress that puts working families first but it is being blocked by a handful of holdouts. Obstruction of the Democratic agenda is hurting Greater Cleveland and as the next Congresswoman, I am going to fight back.”
Turner is unable to announce the exact district she plans to run for this time around because the state's congressional maps aren't yet final, although she said it will be "the newly redistricted Cleveland-based seat."
Shontel Brown got help. Nikema Williams, Raphael Warnock, Hank Johnson and Stacey Plaskett are likely backing Brown's reelection.
The Ohio Supreme Court on Jan. 14 struck down the map of the state's congressional districts, saying it violated partisan gerrymandering prohibitions and favored the Republican Party.
The map invalidated by the state's high court reapportioned the Greater Cleveland district so that it no longer reached into Akron. The decision reopens the possibility that Turner and Brown could once again need to court some Summit County voters as their potential constituents.
The Ohio Redistricting Commission, which is tasked with drawing and now redrawing the maps, has not yet started the process for the congressional districts map, instead working on redrawing the maps for the state house and senate.
Five of its seven members — all Republicans, with the two Democrats voting no — approved a second round of state house and senate maps Saturday. They've already drawn objections, with the plaintiffs asking the Ohio Supreme Court to again find them unconstitutional.
Nina Turner is again running against Shontel Brown in #OH11. Here she is in 2016 encouraging Pennsylvania voters to vote for third party candidate Jill Stein. Her plan worked and Trump won Pennsylvania. After he won the state, the race was over and he became our next president. pic.twitter.com/yi7yb45RGK
Before saying neither Dem or GOP parties "give a sh*t" about people, one of the craziest parts of this conversation is when Nina Turner praises Ohio GOP Gov Mike deWine's handling of the 2020 primary election given voter suppression and dismal turnout in OH (see next tweet) pic.twitter.com/LWWRhHyXSv
Brown has already signalled she is running for the seat. If Turner does run, she will be at a strong disadvantage. She won't have the polls in her favor. She already is seen as a perennial candidate and she's no longer a power player in the Democratic Party.
Will the Nina Van make a return?
I've said it many times. Why can't we have more lawmakers like Shontel Brown in Congress?
Brown is relatively quiet. She doesn't go around the country making noise like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rep. Idiot Karen Greene (R-GA), Rep. Karen Boebert (R-CO) and Rep. Karen Stefanik (R-NY).
Shontel Brown is not trying to bring the circus to Northeastern Ohio unlike Turner.
If you think that Turner is going to win, you might want to holler at Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC). He is certainly not going to allow her a pass. Turner never got invited to the fish fry.
Dayton Police arrest five terrorists involved in murdering a Lyft driver.
Lyft responded to the tragic shooting of a driver in Dayton, Ohio. The driver, identified as Brandon Cooper, 35 of Dayton was shot and killed by five teens who were a part of a ring of individuals tasked with carjacking Lyft and Uber drivers.
Now these five teens are likely to be facing charges as adults and get LIFE in the iron college if convicted. The Dayton SWAT team had to round up the suspects after a brief chase and standoff.
The Dayton Police, Montgomery County Sheriff and FBI are investigating the incident. It started a series of crimes involving carjacking of two other victims. One was a Lyft driver who was carjacked and assaulted. She survived her injuries.
The incident happened on Wednesday night into early Thursday morning.
Lt. Jason Hall said the violence started around 1am on Thursday, after police received a 911 call involving a Lyft driver being carjacked at gunpoint on St. Agnes Avenue in Dayton View. The female Lyft driver was able to escape her attackers and run to a home to contact 911.
About an hour later, the police were called to the 1000 block of Ferguson Avenue not far away. They found a man dead after he was shot and the vehicle crashed into another vehicle.
"The (method of operation) that was being used was to summon a rideshare and then during the transaction [they] robbed the driver," Hall said.
The victim was Brandon Cooper.
The cases were linked throughout the early morning hours.
The two crime scenes were located just a few blocks apart.
The suspects aged between 15 and 16 are eligible for the adult court. They are currently held without release and are being charged with murder (first-degree), criminal intent to commit murder, aggravated robbery, theft of property, disturbing the peace, inducing panic and unlawful discharge.
Since each individual had a role in the matter, they are complacent to murder.
The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Every community in the United States will eventually have a legacy. A legacy of tragedy. Gun violence and COVID-19 will affect your town, your family and your life. So I don't want to hear that bullshit about how gun reform is taking away your rights to own firearms.
I don't want to hear that protesting against police killing people of color is hate on cops in general. I don't want to hear talk about the coronavirus being a myth. When you hear folks say "gun rights," what they really mean is that its white privilege.
I don't want to hear folks say masks and vaccine mandates impede their freedoms. It prevents a deadly outbreak from spreading. If you want to die from the coronavirus, that's on you.
I don't want to hear the shit about guns saving lives. Cause a bullet does not have eyes and it's always likely gonna hit a target. These folks seem to not get it. These incidents are a tragic part of American history.
The website Officer Down is a memorial to those who were killed in the line of duty. Those who don't get their names mentioned in the junk food media. Also the website the National Gun Violence Memorial also keeps record of the many individuals killed by gun violence.
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GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES!
The Frick Park Bridge on Forbes Avenue on Pittsburgh's east side has collapsed.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Tom Wolf and Pittsburgh mayor Ed Gainey were notified. The incident happened hours before the president was to address the bipartisan infrastructure bill that he signed into law late last year.
For years, this bridge was deemed structurally deficient.
@Pgh311 I hope someone is keeping an eye on the underside of the Forbes Avenue bridge over Frick Park? One of the big "X" beams is rusted through entirely (and, yes, I see the cables, so it's probably not a crisis). pic.twitter.com/UQScawPEGQ
Located in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood, the bridge collapse has impacted a major thoroughfare in the city.
The Port Authority confirms that one of its buses was damaged. Also several vehicles were involved.
There were injuries but not life-threatening. The bridge has 14,500 vehicles that travel through it. Thankfully it was not spring nor it was a busy day on the road.
Port Authority officials said that a driver and two passengers were on the bus. Pittsburgh Public Safety officials said the passengers were taken to the hospital for treatment.
Biden is expected to visit Pittsburgh to talk about his infrastructure law. However, this incident has now changed the narrative. The president will directly push for the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better package and discuss the collapse.
Now it appears that the far right will find a way to blame the president for something that was years in the making.
Palin test positive for COVID-19 but still goes out.
Defiant Karen test New York City mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul. The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee tested positive for the coronavirus.
Yet, she went out dining in New York City like it was nothing.
An original Karen.
A restaurant worker gets sick, a group of patrons follow suit, and the restaurant has to close for two weeks because it’s short on staff.
All of this because Sarah Palin can’t stay home and watch Netflix.
Karen Palin is facing online criticism for dining at a New York City restaurant after testing positive for COVID-19.
Video shows the former Alaska governor on Wednesday dining with several people in the outdoor structure at Elio’s Restaurant on the Upper East Side.
At one point, Palin even walked inside without a mask.
In an interview, she admitted she tested positive Monday and is feeling fine. The restaurant said she apologized for causing a scene.
In a tweet, City Councilman Keith Powers lashed out at Palin, saying, “I would deeply deeply appreciate if Sarah Palin would stop infecting my constituents on the Upper East Side. Absolute madness.”
The omicron variant is more contagious, but is considered less serious. Cases of breakthrough infections are increasing. Thanks to those who refuse to get vaccinated, the coronavirus is mutating and its becoming more infectious. Those who got vaccinated are getting mild symptoms.
Those who are unvaccinated are either experiencing mild to severe symptoms. They are overwhelming the hospitals.
If only Americans got vaccinated, we would have been back to normal. Alas, they wanna fuck around and now they're going to find out. Matter of fact, we all are going to find out.
Of course, there's folks who are fully vaccinated but end up getting the coronavirus. As with vaccines, nothing is 100%. The vaccines are capable of preventing the coronavirus. At best, it's a 94% prevention rate which means 1 out of 500 could be infected even if they're vaccinated.
President Joe Biden had hopes that Americans would take this shit seriously. Unfortunately, Republicans so fucking eager to return to power will keep Americans fixated on the culture wars. Now vaccinations are part of this culture war.
But those fighting the culture war by not vaccinating, not wearing face mask in public, not following protocols, and deliberately ignoring federal and international rules when traveling are going to be the first casualties of the war.
With this pandemic mostly affecting states where Republican governors are, we may have to return to wearing facial protection and cutting back services to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
The most worthless politician does The Masked Singer.
We came so far only to have a bunch of selfish idiots set it back. Just because they hate President Joe Biden.
The Republicans are so devoted to destroying Biden and the country for what....to regain power.
Pathetic.
The coronavirus doesn't care about your age, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, politics, economic or social standings. It doesn't care about your business, your performances, your personal finances and travel. It doesn't care about the funerals, the birthday parties, the weddings, the vacations, the events and your graduations. It doesn't care about anything. It's a living organism that causes mild symptoms that include: fever, sore throats, chills, respiratory issues, loss of taste or smell and other unknown symptoms. If you have a weak immune system or health issues, your risk increases.
Death does happen to at least 40% of those who are affected by COVID-19.
If you're not vaccinated, your chances of death increases to 48%.
Healthy people can die from this. Take this seriously. You only have one life!
If you need more information, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at cdc.gov.
Conservatives are already knives out against the possible Biden picks.
They are so fucking predictable when it comes to outrage, it's almost shameful for me to even discuss it. They literally are demanding qualifications and deeming whoever President Joe Biden picks as a token.
The person I nominate to replace Justice Breyer will be someone with extraordinary qualifications. Character, experience, and integrity.
And they will be the first Black woman nominated to the United States Supreme Court.
President Biden is keeping his promise—the next person who fills this seat will be the first Black woman nominated to the United States Supreme Court.pic.twitter.com/6arybJGRmJ
Justice Stephen Breyer retires, Biden is constitutionally allowed to pick a person to replace. Since Republicans are no longer in the majority, they can't block it. However, they can stir doubt and cause chaos. They will move the goalpost, promise a vote only to vote against it.
It is truly sad that we came to this point. But it's what our democracy deals with everyday.
It was never easy. History never told the truth about America. What we read in the books isn't the actual truth in my opinion.
When Biden pick California senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, the far right and leftists were vicious. They criticized her race, being half-Back and half-Asian. They criticized her record as a district attorney in San Francisco. They attacked her laugh, her food, her husband, her decision to be a senator, her dancing, her sorority and her role as a strong Black woman. Hell, they attacked Barack Obama for calling her the most beautiful person in California.
Here's our question of the day.
Are conservatives racist toward strong Black women?
They say that Harris is not qualified. You heard that, not qualified.
Republicans have no shame in what they do.
So as Biden promised on the campaign trail that he will nominate a Black woman to be on the Supreme Court, the usual outrage about it is ongoing.
Joe Biden announces he will not consider any person for Supreme Court unless she’s a black woman. This means he isn’t considering 94% of the American population for this job. It also means he’s doing a tremendous disservice to his eventual nominee. pic.twitter.com/4ql23Zmu4c
It would be my absolute honor to accept this nomination on behalf of the American people. I assure you I meet all the necessary qualifications as I am both black and female. I look forward to establishing further communication with the Biden administration. https://t.co/4bHhWRwcNX
I had a nightmare last night. Sleepy Joe Biden appoints Kamala Harris to the Supreme Court. He appoints Hillary Clinton as his VP. Sleepy Joe resigned as President. Hillary becomes President.
THE LEFT'S OBSESSION WITH RACE: President Biden is only considering Black women for Justice Stephen Breyer's replacement. Race and gender have nothing to do with being a SCOTUS justice! @TheLeoTerrell and Pete Hegseth will weigh in TONIGHT on "Hannity."
...The most jarring aspect however is that the three frontrunners for the position do not need such a threshold exclusionary rule. All are worthy candidates who could have been considered on the merits and would likely have been short listers.
They set the bar so high for Black women. They think that Biden's pick is going to be a "ghetto" Black woman who will side with welfare queens
The shameless nature of the conservatives. It would be almost funny if it wasn't pathetic of the right running their charade.
Who ever President Joe Biden picks, they'll hate it. They'll attack the character of the person. Try to lump every crisis on her. Make a thousand excuses to why it's "the left" that are the real racists.
All cloud cover for their white nationalist agenda.
The rammed through three Supreme Court nominees. They have a two seat majority in the Court.
Uncle Clarence Thomas isn't representative of Black America. He serves the master of white supremacy.
He can't be Thurgood Marshall. He'll never live up to that expectation.
MSNBC and CNBC commentator Stephanie Ruhle will make the evening rounds. She will be the host of The 11th Hour, once hosted by Brian Williams.
Williams departed from NBC News and MSNBC in December after decades working for the network.
Ruhle will leave MSNBC Live for the evening spot. Her show will be replaced with an additional hour of Morning Joe.
The host joined MSNBC in 2016 after working for Bloomberg Television. She previously worked at Bloomberg News, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse.
MSNBC President Rashida Jones praised Ruhle and said that she'll be "bringing her business acumen, hard-hitting interview style and original reporting to the viewers in that slot" at 11pm.
With this announcement is Symone Sanders, who I will discuss on Friday. She left the Biden administration and is slated to host a program on the weekends.
The transition to the primetime spot will take a few months but Ruhle will join Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Lawrence O'Donnell and Joy Reid as the face of MSNBC evenings.
The former Secret Service agent who became a twice failed political candidate, a three time failed talk show host and now a failed social media personality is banned on Twitter.
Somehow, he always seems to be on the short end of that stick. He is diagnosed with cancer and is hopefully on the right path to living.
YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative commentator Karen Bongino from the platform, saying he attempted to evade a previous suspension.
The Fox host uploaded a video to his main channel while his secondary channel, which primarily hosted short clips from his digital radio show, was actively suspended for violating YouTube’s COVID-19 misinformation policy.
“When a channel receives a strike, it is against our Terms of Service to post content or use another channel to circumvent the suspension,” a YouTube spokesperson told the junk food media.
Both of Bongino’s channels have been removed and he will not be able to create a new one in the future, the platform said.
YouTube is ending extremist content on its platform.
The YouTube spokesperson confirmed that attempts to make new channels “associated with his name” will also be denied.
Bongino had announced in a video posted earlier this week that he was already planning on leaving YouTube, and the nearly 900,000 subscribers on his main channel, for good. He had previously pledged to do the same with Twitter over his unsubstantiated claims of anti-conservative bias on that platform, but ultimately returned to the service.
Bongino will likely continue posting his videos on Rumble, a white nationalist video streaming service championed by the far-right. He was an early investor in the platform.
The Dumbass Bongino Show channel, which posts full episodes of his weekday show, boasts over 2 million Rumble subscribers.
The platform’s popularity has soared recently, reaching over 30 million monthly viewers in the first quarter of 2021 from under 2 million in the fall of 2020.
It has attracted support from Washed Up 45, whose new media venture TRUTH Social announced a partnership with Rumble last month, and politicians including Sen. Karen Paul (R-KY), who announced he would be joining the platform after being suspended from YouTube.
Peter Robbins passed away. The actor committed suicide.
One of the original voices of America's underdog Charlie Brown passed away. Peter Robbins voice the Peanuts character from his young age to his early teens. He would end up having some turmoil in his life and served a bid in the iron college. After his release, depression hit and he would commit suicide.
He provided the voice of the title character in 1965’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and 1966’s “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.”
Robbins battled lifelong mental illness, struggled with addiction and had several run-ins with the law as an adult.
In 2013, he pleaded guilty to threatening and stalking both his ex-girlfriend and a plastic surgeon who gave her a breast enhancement he paid for.
He also spent time behind bars for making criminal threats to a San Diego County sheriff.
After his release from prison in 2019, he discussed his time behind bars in an interview with Fox 5 San Diego.
“I would recommend to anybody that has bipolar disorder to take it seriously because your life can turn around in the span of a month, like it did to me,” Robbins told the news outlet.
“I came out of prison and I’m a better person for it. I’m much more humble and grateful and thankful that I lived through the experience.”
A memorial service for Robbins will be held at a future date, the report said.
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A washed up entertainer decides to run on the "Let's Go Brandon" bandwagon. The Karen releases an anti-Biden, anti-Fauci song to his white nationalist fans.
Kid Rock calls for unity while bashing President Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, CNN, Facebook and Twitter. The irony of his song.
Obviously, Fox Karens reported on this has been's song.
The Washed up entertainer dropped his latest track "We The People" along with two others at midnight on Tuesday to get his fans excited for a bevy of live performances he’s kicking off in April that he teased may very well be the last time he hits the road to perform across the country.
Right out of the gate, the track is overtly political as the typically right-leaning rocker bashes COVID-19 mandates and even outright calls out Fauci by name.
"Wear your mask, take your pills / now a whole generation's mentally ill!" Rock shouts in the rap/rock hybrid single.
Elsewhere in the song, he adds: "But COVID's near, it's coming to town, we gotta act quick, shut our borders down / Joe Biden does, the media embraces, Big Don does it and they call him racist."
The chorus of the more than four-minute song is simply a chant of the phrase "Let’s go Brandon" a not-so-secret code that has come to stand in for "Fuck Joe Biden" among his critics on the right.
In a Facebook video announcing the new tracks, Kid Rock described "We The People" as a "hard rock-rap tune."
"[It’s] about, well, all the craziness going on in our world in the last few years and the politics and the polarization and social justice," he said. "You know, constantly for just being a Trump fan attacked in the media day in day out."
He added: "I don’t mind taking a punch, but I hit back mother f---er and I hit hard."
However, he notes that the song concludes on a message of unity, which he hopes to steer his creative work back toward after years of the country being marked by political division.
The other two songs that Kid Rock released Tuesday morning include "Last Dance," which he describes as a song that is inspired by his parents’ more than 50-year marriage. The other is called "Rockin," which he says is a country ballad with some R&B elements to it. According to the Detroit News, the song name-checks artists like Bob Seger and Marvin Gaye.
The track comes just months after the November release of the song "Don’t Tell Me How to Live," which also took aim at the current political climate and included the 50-year-old musician’s thoughts on his critics and "snowflakes."
The other entertainers who has chucked on the "Let's Go Brandon" meme includes Forgiato Blow, Vanilla Ice and Kanye West.
Expect a partisan fight for the Supreme Court confirmation to begin. Associate Justice Stephen Breyer is reportedly retiring and it will be a confirmation of a new Supreme Court justice. With the divided Senate and the potential gridlock expected by Republicans, President Joe Biden will be fighting for his nominee to get confirmed.
On top of that, we have Sen. Karen Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Karen Sinema (D-AZ) potentially fucking it up as well.
The president is expected to pick a Black woman to be his nominee and it will be possibly Ketanji Brown Jackson in the front. The pick will be a historical accomplishment for African American women if it does become a conformation by the Senate.
She recently was appointed on the U.S. Circuit Court of The District of Columbia in 2021 to replace former Barack Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.
Garland is the current Attorney General.
Breyer is one of the three remaining liberal justices, and his decision to retire after more than 27 years on the court allows President Joe Biden to appoint a successor who could serve for decades and, in the short term, maintain the current 6-3 split between conservative and liberal justices.
Biden said he will pick a Black woman for Supreme Court.
Democrats have already signal a fast track confirmation. They will waste no time to push forward the nominee. The Republicans will now find themselves at a crossroads.
The obstructionist leader, Karen McConnell (R-KY) and Republicans rammed through Karen Coney Barrett in the final weeks of the October despite his made up rule. In 2016, when Antonin Scalia passed away, former president Obama made his third pick. McConnell refused to take up the nomination causing it to expire. Then he change the filibuster rules to rush through Karen Gorsuch. Despite allegations of sexual abuse, Karen Kavanaugh was rushed through. In one term, Washed Up 45 managed to get three nominees through.
If they oppose the nominee and it expires, Senate leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will signal a court packing.
At 83, Breyer is the court's oldest member. Liberal activists have urged him for months to retire while Democrats hold both the White House and the Senate — a position that could change after the midterm elections in November. They contended that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg stayed too long despite her history of health problems and should have stepped down during the Obama administration.
Biden said in brief remarks to the press on Wednesday that he will leave it to Breyer to formally announce the retirement.
"Let him make whatever statement he's going to make and I'll be happy to talk about it later," he said.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki had earlier tweeted a statement, saying, "It has always been the decision of any Supreme Court Justice if and when they decide to retire, and how they want to announce it, and that remains the case today." The White House had no additional details or information to share, she added.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is the leading pick.
Republican Sen. Karen Graham (R-SC) who voted for Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, said if Democrats "hang together," as he expects, they will have the power to replace Breyer without one Republican vote. He is expected to oppose the nominee regardless of the qualifications.
"Elections have consequences, and that is most evident when it comes to fulfilling vacancies on the Supreme Court," Graham said in a statement.
Despite calls from some Biden supporters to add more seats to the Supreme Court to counter its current conservative lean, Breyer said in March that such a move would risk undermining confidence in the court. Advocates of court packing, he said, should "think long and hard before embodying those changes in law."
Appointed by former president Bill Clinton, Breyer came to the Supreme Court in 1994 and became one of the court's moderate-to-liberal members, though he often said it was misleading to label justices with such terms.
Breyer believed that interpreting the Constitution should be based on practical considerations, changing with the times. That put him at odds with conservative justices who said the court must be guided by the original intent of the founders.
"The reason that I do that is because law in general, I think, grows out of communities of people who have some problems they want to solve," he said in an interview.
Republicans will try to stall the nominee. The current Supreme Court will be ending in July and a new session will be starting in October. Biden will pick his nominee soon.
Carol Ann Stewart, known professionally as Carol Speed was an American actress, singer, and author. She was best known for her roles in the 1970s blaxploitation era, most notbaly starring as Abby Williams in the American International Pictures horror film Abby.
Carol Speed also played in the movie The Mack with Max Julien, who died earlier this month.
Speed played Lulu, Goldie most loyal prostitute.
Speed was born in Bakersfield, California in 1945. She was raised in San Jose. She started performing at an early age. She was a participant in the San Jose Light Opera production of "The King & I." During her young age, she was part of a singing group with her cousins. She graduated from William C. Overfelt High School as a high achiever and also held the title of homecoming queen. She became one of the first African American women to receive for the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.
She got an opportunity to sing as a backup vocalist for Bobbie Gentry. She landed a role in the Diahann Carroll series Julia.
Soon she appeared on small screen and television. Her first film role was in The New Centurions. She played a prostitute named Martha. Then she starred in blaxploitation movies like The Big Bird Cage alongside Pam Grier and Sid Haig.
She played her role as Abby Williams in the horror film, Abby which she was a minister's wife who become possessed by the malevolent spirit of evil demon.
She played in the Quintin Tarantino movie Jackie Brown but dropped out in the middle of filming because of personal reasons.
It was revealed that Speed passed away on January 14. They confirmed the news this week.
Speed was romantically involved with Frank Ward, the Oakland pimp who gave inspiration for The Mack. Speed had one son who died. She died in the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma at the age of 76.
Cheryl Hines blast anti-vaxxer husband Robert F. Kennedy.
The Randy Quaid of the Kennedy dynasty is under fire and his wife also called his ass out.
Actress Cheryl Hines is married to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of slain politician Robert F. Kennedy. He is the nephew of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy. He is cousin to Caroline Kennedy and journalist/former California first lady Maria Shriver.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. found himself in some real heat when his crazy ass compared vaccines to the betrayal of Anne Frank. His father, then U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York was killed in 1968 during the peak of the Democratic primaries. He was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian man who was a conspiracy nut angered by Kennedy's stance on Israel.
Robert F. Kennedy championed for civil rights and anti-war. He championed many causes.
His son is champion of extremism.
He appeared at an anti-Joe Biden, anti-vax, anti-mandate rally in Washington, DC on Saturday.
My husband’s reference to Anne Frank at a mandate rally in D.C. was reprehensible and insensitive. The atrocities that millions endured during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything. His opinions are not a reflection of my own.
The anti-vaccine activist made “deeply offensive” comments when he suggested things are worse for people today than they were for Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi concentration camp after hiding with her family in a secret annex in an Amsterdam house for two years, several Jewish advocacy and Holocaust remembrance groups said Monday.
“Making reckless comparisons to the Holocaust, the murder of six million Jews, for a political agenda is outrageous and deeply offensive. Those who carelessly invoke Anne Frank, the star badge, and the Nuremberg Trials exploit history and the consequences of hate,” the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said Monday in a statement posted to Twitter.
A spokesman said the museum made the statement in response to Kennedy’s speech and other recent incidents of people invoking the Holocaust for political purposes. The museum also pointed out that Anne Frank was one of the 1.5 million children who died during the Holocaust.
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, wrote on Twitter that Kennedy invoking Anne Frank’s memory and the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis to make a comparison with the U.S. government “working to ensure the health of its citizens is deeply inaccurate, deeply offensive and deeply troubling. This must stop.”
Among the others condemning the comment were Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem, which said it “denigrates the memory of its victims and survivors.”
During a Sunday rally in Washington organized by his anti-vaccine nonprofit group Children’s Health Defense, Kennedy complained that people’s rights were being violated by public health measures that had been taken to reduce the number of people sickened and killed by COVID-19. He said the nation’s leading infectious disease doctor, Anthony Fauci, was orchestrating “fascism.”
“Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland. You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did,” said Kennedy, a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and the son of his slain brother, former U.S. attorney general, civil rights activist and Democratic presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy.
Kennedy Jr. went on to say that today, “the mechanisms are being put in place that will make it so none of us can run and none of us can hide,” and complained about 5G, the newest generation of wireless communication networks, and about vaccine passports.
Radical Kennedy goes to bat for anti-vaccines.
An AP investigation published last month detailed how Kennedy has invoked the specter of Nazis and the Holocaust in his work to sow doubts about vaccines and agitate against public health efforts to bring the pandemic under control, such as requiring masks or vaccine mandates.
In a speech to the Ron Paul Institute in October, for example, Kennedy referenced Nazis multiple times, obliquely comparing public health measures put in place by governments around the world to Nazi propaganda meant to scare people into abandoning critical thinking. Last month, he put out a video that showed a picture of Fauci with a Hitler mustache.
In an email sent by a spokeswoman on Monday, Kennedy described his statement as “a factual observation that technology has given an arsenal of frightening instrumentalities to totalitarian elements.”
“I referred to Anne Frank’s terrible two year ordeal only by way of showing that modern surveillance capacity would make her courageous feat virtually impossible today,” he said.
Kennedy said he “compared no one to the Nazis or Adolf Hitler,” but did not immediately address other instances when he has invoked Nazis and Hitler to make a political point.
Kennedy apologized in 2015, after he used the word “holocaust” to describe children whom he believes were hurt by vaccines. He said at the time that he “employed the term during an impromptu speech.”
Thanks to everyone who came to DC yesterday to stand up for democracy, our children and the United States Constitution.https://t.co/qFCl2y4kXp
I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, especially to families that suffered the Holocaust horrors. My intention was to use examples of past barbarism to show the perils from new technologies of control. To the extent my remarks caused hurt, I am truly and deeply sorry.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 20, 2021
That he has continued to use such comparisons indicates, “he means it,” said Dr. David Gorski, a cancer surgeon at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit and a critic of the anti-vaccine movement who has tracked Kennedy’s rhetoric for over 15 years. Gorski said Kennedy has been making Nazi and Holocaust references in relation to vaccines since at least 2013.
In the past few years, Gorski said, Kennedy has been more open about using such language, which he said may indicate Kennedy senses it resonates with the new fan base he has built up during the pandemic, or that the consequences of using such language aren’t “unacceptably negative.”
The AP investigation documented how Kennedy had grown his group during the pandemic, expanding his audience and pulling in millions of dollars in new funding.
Gorski said the language demonstrates one of the ways Kennedy likes to connect with his audience: buttering them up by portraying them as going against the flow and smarter than everyone else.
“If vaccine mandates are totalitarian like Nazis and the Soviet Union and that sort of thing, what does that make the anti-vaxxers? They’re brave freedom fighters,” Gorski said. “There’s flattery in those analogies.”
Aryeh Tuchman of the ADL’s Center on Extremism said Kennedy’s repeated comments invoking the Holocaust were shocking. Such rhetoric ratchets up tensions and leads to the demonization of people who disagree, whipping up anger and rage, Tuchman said, adding that the repeated comments showed Kennedy had a callous disregard for the feelings of Jewish people.
“These analogies are historically specious and hurtful to Jews and, frankly, to anyone who has a historical memory of who the Nazis were and what they did,” Tuchman said. “Anything in the pursuit of his agenda.”
