The long running animated children's series Arthur is officially ending this week. There will be four new episodes and right now a full scale marathon of Arthur throughout the week. The show is based off the popular books from American illustrator and author Marc Brown.
Brown's tale of an aardvark with glasses living in Elwood City with his mom, father, sister, D.W., sister Kate, his dog, Pal and best friend Buster has been on the air for 25 seasons.
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The four episodes will air as part of a 25th anniversary “Arthur” marathon, which will feature more than 250 episodes and movie specials from across the series’ run. The marathon will air on PBS Kids and livestream on the PBS Kids YouTube channel from Feb. 16-21. The four new episodes will air on PBS stations and stream for free on PBS Kids on Feb. 21, concluding the show’s 25-year run.
“For more than 25 years, Arthur and his friends have kept viewers learning and growing through their true-to-life experiences,” said Sara DeWitt, Senior Vice President and General Manager of PBS Kids, in a statement. “We can’t wait to debut these episodes and introduce new ‘Arthur’ content that will give fans more ways to engage with their favorite aardvark.”
Now all news ain't that bad. The series will be on PBS Kids for years to come.
Arthur has over 255 episodes. Major guest stars were Matt Damon, The Backstreet Boys, Art Garfunkel, Joshua Redman, Yo-Yo Ma, Michelle Kwan, Taj Mahal, Jane Lynch, Idina Menzel, R.L. Stine and Marc Brown, himself appeared on episodes.
The late celebrities includes Fred Rogers, Alex Trebek, John Lewis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joan Rivers and Koko Taylor were on the series.
There were controversial episodes. One that had Lance Armstrong was pulled from rotation after the cyclist admitted to doping. Another episode featured Arthur's teacher Mr. Ratburn getting married to an aardvark named Patrick. The episode involved a different species (same sex) marriage. Alabama and Arkansas public television pulled the episode.
Like most Arthur episodes it dealt with issues facing children, teenagers and adults. The show also was a part of the real life issues. Unfortunately like many in the far-right, they rather sweep reality under the rug.
Postcards from Buster was a short-lived spin-off from Arthur. It lasted two seasons.
Based on popularity, I expect the Wildbrain/DHX Media, PBS Kids and Paramount could revive the series in the future. I mean they have already rebooted shows from the 1980s and 1990s.
The transracial Jeffrey Shaun King wants to have a heart to heart talk with Ye.
You are reminded that Talcum X is not your friend. He is a grifter and deceiver. His calls to activism are usually involving you giving your hard earn money to helping him and Lee Merritt.
King is born a white man but parades himself as a Black man. He often tries to take credit for the works of actual activists. He is not affiliated with any Black Lives Matters groups but the junk food media keeps placing him there. He often is called out by Black women. He also had a huge ego. If he doesn't get his way, he will protest online. When the money ain't right, somehow he'll find an emergency within his family. When he's facing controversy over his actions, he will say that everyone is out to get him.
He is really petty. He blocks people who call him out. That includes verified people. He has been on Twitter and has over 1 million followers. On Instagram he has 3.9 million followers. On Facebook he has 4 million followers. Somehow he has the time to scroll through comments and likes. He would block people who say he's spreading misinformation. He has blocked people who criticize Bernie Sanders, Nina Turner or his many groups he formed in the past five years.
His input in a matter that involves Black men and women is never wanted. On top of that, he's no better than Ye or Kim Kardashian. He always want to be in the limelight whereas others stay on the sidelines doing actual work.
Kanye West is loosing it.
He posted on social media his opinion of Kanye West and his feud with estranged wife Kim Kardashian and her alleged boyfriend Pete Davidson.
King has come forward to publicly condemn West's behavior in a lengthy post. He commended West on being a brilliant artist, but he accused the Rap mogul of "problematic" behavior.
Shaun King’s long IG post says Kanye West & Donald Trump suffer from extreme narcissism. 🤦♀️
He says “And so what Kanye does, is post some truly toxic and dangerous stuff about his family, THEN: Posts something smart and pro-Black in between dates with a new white woman”… 😃😃 pic.twitter.com/gsJbTRolMU
"He has crossed a dangerous line that I personally find very problematic and is common with abusive men," wrote King. "1. Kanye and Kim are separated and Kim has filed for divorce. 2. Kanye has openly and publicly dated multiple women, including over the past month, while… 3. He has repeatedly threatened violence against a man Kim has seen. 4. And threatened the careers and names and reputations of good men and women connected to that man. 5. All in the name of his family. But NONE of this helps Kanye's family. And so, 6. Kim literally texts him to tell him he has started to create a physically dangerous situation for them. 7. And he posts the text, with another meme of physical violence."
He then compared West to Washed Up 45, accusing them both of exhibiting "extreme narcissism." King also claimed that West has a cycle of alleged dangerous behavior: "Gospel. Pro-Black st
atement. Followed by toxicity. Violent innuendo and memes. And weirdness. Rinse and repeat."
Snoop Dogg releases his latest album on Death Row Records.
The latest album from Big Snoop Dogg.
Def Jam's new A&R and media visionary is now the owner of Death Row Records. On top of that, he still owns Doggystyle Records. The toy company Hasbro had bout eOne Entertainment which was home to Koch Records.
Death Row's catalog was part of that catalog. When the label eOne Music was sold to the Blackstone Music Group, the catalog was stalled. Big Snoop Dogg managed to invest in buying Death Row Records and he now acquired the rights for its trademark and he is working to buy back the catalog.
The catalog includes the albums, outtakes and unreleased music from Big Snoop, Dr. Dre, Tha Dogg Pound, Tupac Shakur and others.
Snoop performed at Super Bowl LVI.
He said he will release his album before the Super Bowl.
The album titled BODR (abbreviated as Bacc on Death Row). It was released through Death Row Records and Create Music Group. The album is executive produced by Snoop, Battlecat and DJ Green Lantern.
The album has production from Battlecat, Bink!, DJ Green Lantern, Don Cannon, Hi-Tek, Hit-Boy, Hollis, Nottz, Soopafly and Trevor Lawrence, Jr.
On the album there are features from Nefertitti Avani, Nas, Emo Trap, T.I., Sleepy Brown, Nate Dogg, The Game, DaBaby, HeyDeon, Uncle Murda, Jane Handcock, Lil Duval and October London.
King Push wrapping up his latest album. Discusses the Drake situation.
Despite the drama facing Kanye West and Pete Davidson, the feud between Pusha T and Drake appears to be over for now.
This was one of the most ugliest feuds in modern history.
The feud began back when Cash Money Records still on its high game. Birdman had featured Clipse (a group composed of Pusha T and his brother No Malice) on his album. Pusha's mentor Pharrell Williams was on good terms with Birdman and Lil Wayne but Push felt they were genuine. So in a single called, "Mr. Me Too" it appears the single aimed at Cash Money and Lil Wayne didn't appreciated that.
The feud intensified when Push released the hard hitting diss, "Exodus 23:1" which aimed at Birdman, Ronald "Slim" Williams, Drake, Lil Wayne and the label. He accused Cash Money of having ghostwriters and they weren't street.
Lil Wayne fired back with Ghoulish. It didn't land much of a blow on Push and Tunechi didn't respond any further.
Drake on the other hand, was subliminal. The two had went at it for years.
Taking one loss doesn't slow the Canadian media mogul Drake.
Drake called Push's drug trafficking past a scam and called him a bench player to Kanye West and Pharrell Williams, the two who produced most of his albums.
Drake was called out in the single "Infrared" on the Daytona album. The single accused Drake of having a ghostwriter and being signed to three labels and he ain't getting paid.
The 6 God released the "Duppy Freestyle" which said his drug dealing past is fake, Kanye West is pretty much a crazy piece of shit and dissing Pusha T would boost the rival's sales. He also aimed at his longtime girlfriend now wife, Virginia Williams.
Push came back hard. The single "The Story of Adidon" was added to Daytona. Push responded with the Jay-Z "Story of O.J." beat. He said that Drake had an illegitimate child and Noah "40" Shebib has multiple sclerosis. The song's cover also had Drake dressed in a Jim Crow shirt with blackface makeup.
After that, Drake admitted he has a son and admitted he was bested by Pusha T. He vowed to never settle the feud with the Virginia Beach rapper/media personality.
Well after years of dissing and slick talking from both parties, it appears that Pusha T is looking forward to end the feud once and for all.
During a recent visit to Complex, Pusha T spoke to Speedy Morman about Drizzy using one of his lines and how he doesn’t think anything of it.
“I thought he was propping up his son speaking French,” Pusha said before saying he didn’t find anything suspicious about it. “I wouldn’t put my son in that type of energy, and he was a Clipse fan back then, so it makes sense.”
Speedy then brought up the time in November 2021 when Drake and Kanye West squashed their beef and asked Push whether he could get over the beef he has with the 6 God. Pusha T has already moved on from it, apparently.
“Oh, I’ve already looked past that,” he said. “I looked past that. I don’t look towards that anymore. Bygones are bygones, as far as I see. I think it’s really good that they did squash it. That works really good for them.”
He added, “When he told me, I told him that might be good for you. That shit will work well for you. We don’t gotta consult, but we just had a talk about it.”
It's the sentencing of the former Brooklyn Center cop who shot Daunte Wright. The Hennepin County Court will deliberate over how they will sentence the dirty cop.
The woman is getting two years in the rion college for the shooting of the unarmed Wright in a fatal shooting by mistaken her firearm for a Taser.
The former cop, 49 was found guilty late last year of first- and second-degree manslaughter in the April shooting in Brooklyn Center. White woman tears saved her from 15 years.
The former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright while yelling "Taser" during a traffic-stop-turned-arrest outside Minneapolis is expected to be sentenced Friday.
The Wright family was intending on having her serve more than 10 years for the charges but the state saw that "in the line of duty" a tragic mistake is not an intentional act.
White woman tears trump justice.
Regina Chu, the judge preceding over the sentencing was slightly emotional in the decision. She said that the dirty cop shooting Wright was not intentional. It was accidental but it should be consequences for it.
The judge compared the decision to two former Minneapolis cops who killed Justine Damond and George Floyd. Saying that there's a difference in the matter of actions. She believed that "in the line of duty" the dirty cop was right in using force.
State Attorney General Keith Ellison will react to the decision. The Wright family is extremely pissed about this decision.
Now if the U.S. Justice Department does get involved she could face civil rights charges. But it will difficult to prove that she violated the sentence.
Many see this decision as white privilege. If this was a Black man who shot a cop, they are expected to face up to 40 years in the iron college.
A man fleeing should not be killed. This is another travesty of justice.
Daunte Wright was robbed of his life.
Jamarr Clark, George Floyd, Philando Castile and Daunte Wright would be alive if they didn't have bad police officers in Minnesota.
Who is robbed of this justice?
Daunte Wright, Jr., the son.
The 2-year old boy will never see his father ever again. Chyna Whittaker will raise their child alone. Daunte's parents, Katie and Arbuey Wright will live knowing this dirty cop can get on with her life after serving 16 months.
Where's the justice?
It's pretty sad that the American justice system will always be in favor of white cops, white women, white vigilantes and white politicians.
The stress is getting to Brittany Collins (known as Coi LeRay). The entertainer has signaled that she may take a break from the music after an alleged mental breakdown.
The entertainer is dealing with body shamers and being stuck in her father's shadow. Her father is a washed up celebrity who was the former co-owner of The Source Magazine.
The New Jersey native entertainer is trying to brush off the hate and criticism but it's driving her to a point to whether she could actually release her album on time. She is a signed act to Universal Republic Records and is currently working on her debut album.
There's reasons to the breakdown. It could revolve around the break up with Toronto rapper Pressa. The two had been dating for a year before an alleged breakup. But there is no signals of that being a reason.
The two live in Los Angeles.
The tweet she put out made folks concerned that she could harm herself.
Washed up entertainer Raymond "Benzino" Scott will destroy everyone just to defeat Eminem. That includes his daughter, rapper/socialite Coi LeRay. He is a no neck bum who thought taking on Eminem would help his record sales. He went into a feud over the fact that Em was doing controversial things he would never do. He said that rappers like him could never sell albums because of Em.
Eminem basically called Scott the "worst rapper in the world." He said that he had a vendetta against him ever since he got big. Scott convinced his staff to make the critically acclaimed The Marshall Mathers LP a two star rating.
Eminem released two devastating disses against Scott and The Source. It pretty much destroyed Scott's career. Eminem predicted that Scott would try to eat off his children. He tried to get money from Cool Breeze Ray (Yung Chavo) and Coi LeRay, his two eldest children.
Call the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357). It is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders.
Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or text the Crisis Text Line (text HELLO to 741741). Both services are free and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The deaf and hard of hearing can contact the Lifeline via TTY at 1-800-799-4889. All calls are confidential. Contact social media outlets directly if you are concerned about a friend’s social media updates or dial 911 in an emergency. Learn more on the Lifeline’s website or the Crisis Text Line’s website.
Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN) is the latest white nationalist to visit the pearly gates. He passed away at the age of 59. Another Republican bites the dust. That means that Minnesota's Gov. Tim Walz will have to schedule a special primary and special election to fill the reminder of Hagedorn's term.
Gwen and I are thinking of Congressman Jim Hagedorn’s family and loved ones today. May they find peace during this difficult time.
The entire House Republican Conference mourns the loss of our friend and colleague @RepHagedorn. Jim was a brave and tireless advocate for his constituents throughout his time in Congress. He was a fighter. We pray for his family and community. He will be deeply missed. 🙏
Hagedorn who represented the 1st Congressional District which includes Rochester, Austin and Mankato.
Born in Blue Earth, Minnesota, Hagedorn was the son of Tom Hagedorn (born 1943) and Kathleen Mittlestadt. He was raised on the family farm in Truman while his father served the Congress from 1975 until 1983.
He was a graduate from Langley High School in Virginia. He attended George Mason University with a Bachelor of Arts in government and political science.
Hagedorn was a supporter of Washed Up 45's attempts to overturn the election. He sponsored the amicus brief from the Supreme Court lawsuit, Texas v. Pennsylvania. He contested the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. He also supported not convicting Washed Up 45 in his second impeachment trial.
Hagedorn was married to the former Republican state party chair Jennifer Carnahan. She resigned after her allies notable a political operative was engaged in a child sex trafficking plot.
The white nationalist had stage IV kidney cancer. He had received immunotherapy to treat the cancer.
He passed away on Thursday Feb. 17.
Only one year ago, Rush Limbaugh saw the pearly gates. Mind you I don't believe in a Heaven or a Hell. I believe that one clown won't stop the show. For every far-right clown that dies, there will be five more to replace that clown.
So I am not going to mourn a clown's passing. I am just going to prepare for another battle against that clown's replacement.
He just can't let her go. Now Hillary Clinton is warning them that legal matters could happen if they keep it up.
Former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic nominee for president Hillary Clinton finally had enough of the Fox agitators saying her name. She is warning them that if they keep on pushing these baseless conspiracies about her, there will be repercussions.
“It’s funny [how] the more trouble [Donald] Trump gets into, the wilder the charges and conspiracy theories about me seem to get,” Clinton told a gathering of New York Democrats. “Fox leads the charge with accusations against me, counting on their audience to fall for it again. And as an aside, they’re getting awfully close to actual malice in their attacks.”
Hillary Clinton was mentioned nearly 200 times on Fox’s air Thursday, per a search of rush TV transcripts. Jesse Watters and Tucker Carlson hyped her as a potential 2024 candidate, while Sean Hannity dared her to sue the network. More in @ReliableSources: https://t.co/HisPluGgBdpic.twitter.com/aRgqDCipgv
Hannity claims the Clinton campaign hacked into Trump campaign’s server/the office of president and stole material according to the filing pic.twitter.com/IHYda2vWyG
Fox News quickly cut away from Hillary Clinton's speech as she called for people to reject Trump's big lie about the 2020 election pic.twitter.com/AOEwZlRI92
Finally, I find it hilariously ironic that Hannity is cheerleading these defamation lawsuits James O'Keefe is filing against media outlets, considering the fact that Fox is currently staring down multi-billion dollar defamation suits from Dominion and Smartmatic. pic.twitter.com/vPXajQilXw
Hannity: Media Wrong for 3 Years on Russia Collusion, Missed FISA Court Lied To On 4 Separate Occasions, Now Throwing Wet Blanket on Durham Revelations pic.twitter.com/9t98y72Abc
— Alexandra Datig | Front Page Index 🇺🇸 (@alexdatig) February 16, 2022
At the New York Democratic convention, Clinton endorses Kathy Hochul for governor and made a speech that certainly riled up the only human being so obsessed with saying her name every time something bad happens to Washed Up 45.
He has Hillary on the brain.
A media personality so fucking annoying, you have to literally hope that his show would finally find something that may stick.
A person who is dubbed the official softball of the former president.
"Softball" Hannity addressed Clinton directly during his Thursday night show. “Malice, really? It’s called news,” the right-wing propagandist claimed. “Hillary, we invite you to bring it on.” Of course, while it is extremely unlikely Clinton would take any such legal action against Fox, I would be curious to know what the network’s lawyers think of him daring her to sue for defamation.
Remember he and his network paid a hefty amount of punitive damages to the family of Seth Rich.
The right-wing talk channel, which has in recent days dishonestly twisted a court filing from special counsel John Durham to accuse Clinton of nefariously spying on Washed Up 45, mentioned Clinton’s name nearly 400 times.
It is difficult to prove that this network was malicious towards Clinton. She is a public figure although not running for politics.
CNN Media Analyst Oliver Darcy said that Fox carried Clinton's remarks briefly before abruptly cutting away when she started to talk about the Big Lie. But if the network had stuck with her speech, the channel's viewers would have heard Clinton rip into Fox's recent coverage of her. "Fox leads the charge with accusations against me, counting on their audience to fall for it again," Clinton said. She then invoked some legal language. "As an aside," Clinton said about Fox, "they're getting awfully close to actual malice." Clinton spox Nick Merrill wrote on Twitter that she had "called them and their bullshit out by name."
A rep for Fox didn't respond when I asked about Clinton mentioning "actual malice," the bar a public figure needs to clear in order to succeed in a defamation lawsuit.
The softball was the only Fox figure that I could find who addressed Clinton's malice comment on the network's air. Other personalities, however, devoted significant time elsewhere. One theme Fox promoted Thursday night might inspire some déjà vu: That Clinton is gearing up to run for president again. It was pushed by both Karen Watters and Tuckems.
The white nationalist who mocked Clinton for calling out Fox, framed her speech as "the start of something big." He added during a lengthy segment, "We fully support Hillary Clinton as she runs for president."
The big picture: Expect Fox and the right-wing media universe as a whole to continue its focus on Clinton. These outlets need villains and, all these years later, Clinton serves as one of the ultimate foils. Tracy Sefl, the Democratic strategist who is familiar with the right-wing media universe and who was once described as the "Drudge whisperer" for having dealt with Karen Drudge on behalf of the Clinton campaign, had a similar thought when I texted her Thursday. "Why the obsession?" Sefl asked rhetorically. "Simple: [cha-ching]..."
Still dead. Republicans mourn his loss. The rest of us don't care about it.
I can only imagine that President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and many Democrats will not honor this man's legacy. They will not lower flags nor take the time to mourn the passing. It is business as usual. For most Americans, it's another day. For the far-right, it's a day to celebrate the legacy of hate, conspiracy and division.
Today is the one year anniversary of the passing of far-right personality Rush Limbaugh. The agitator died of stage IV lung cancer on this day.
Me and LaReyna talked about the passing of Limbaugh. The junk food media broke into their coverage to honor this extremely controversial figure. His widow delivered the news on this day shortly after 1pm on Feb. 17, 2021.
Who needs a Limbaugh when you have the former president Washed Up 45 taking his place?
Before his passing, he was considered the "The face of the Republican Party."
He was the "gold standard" of Republican politics. He helped build the Republican Party in 1994. When he took to the air to demonize Bill Clinton, Republicans saw him as a figure they needed to bring the revolution back to Washington.
During the Clinton years, it's was all about his presidency, Hillary Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, impeaching him, calling their daughter the family dog, claiming Vince Foster was killed by the Clintons and "Wag the Dog."
When George W. Bush got into office, it was "the left can't accept a win," 9/11, you with us or with the terrorist, stop immigration, stop Harriet Meyers, John Kerry is no hero and John Edwards has no place.
As Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton declared their bid for president. It was Clinton everyday. The agitator pushed for "Operation Chaos" to keep Democrats fighting until the convention. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Obama the Muslim, Clinton sneaky tactics, Obama the socialist, Obama too Black, Obama the Magic Negro, the constant demeaning of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, blame Democrats for the economy crashing, so on and so on.
When Obama became the president, it was the Tea Party, the rise of Palin, the weak president, the anti-white president, the birth certificate, demeaning Sandra Fluke, Joe Bite Me, Michelle Obama not the normal weight first lady, Benghazi, gun grabbing Obama, New Black Panthers, ACORN, Solyndra and conspiracies everywhere. That's when he met a reality television star and real estate mogul who driven the birth certificate controversy and called Obama a "failure."
White nationalist cartoonist drew a tribute to Limbaugh.
When Washed Up 45 ran president, Limbaugh was not too sure about him. He thought he could sabotage the Republican Party and allow Hillary Clinton a win. But as soon as the guy started saying "Build that Wall" it was sure fire for him and many on the far-right. So it was nonstop Hillary conspiracies. Talk about Crazy Bernie and how he was "cheated" from the nomination, how the reality television star can envision a new chapter of Ronald Reagan and constant peddling of Russian Active Measures.
When Washed Up 45 became the president, Limbaugh was the loyal lapdog and conspiracy theorist.
I will always remember that Limbaugh along with the drunk Karen Pirro and "Softball" Hannity appearing at the rally to get Missouri's Karen Hawley elected. Washed Up 45 had honored these entities for a mighty win in 2018.
The toxic swamp of hate.
In 2020, shortly after his 69th birthday, he told his audience that he had an untreatable cancer and knew his days were numbered. The former president honored him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the State of the Union. It was one of the most disgraceful moments in history.
Why did Washed Up 45 honor a man who had spent his life causing divisiveness and division in our country?
His polarizing life is a part of pop culture. He has been a fixture on AM radio for over 40 years.
His fourth wife, Kathryn Rogers will inherit his millions and his mansion. She was 25 years younger than him. I believe she was a gold digger but who cares what I think.
Michigan woman took a drive through Scioto County, Ohio with the packs.
One county in the state of Ohio is leading in overdose deaths. In fact, this county is probably the nation's most dangerous region for drug abuse. Scioto County which is at the tip of Southern Ohio is the hub of a major drug trafficking route. All the travelers passing through Portsmouth could be hiding narco and millions of dollars. The county and the state highway patrol vow to close the Silk Road.
The Ohio State Patrol and local authorities are trying to end a notorious route for drug traffickers. U.S. Highway 23 and Ohio State Route 823 (future Interstate 73) is a major truck and trade trafficking route to the Appalachians. It also a frequent route for drug trafficking.
I've read stories about Portsmouth, Ohio and the drug epidemic harming that area. One of my former friends lived there before moving to Dayton. Of those affected by drug abuse, I believe 1 out of 30 per 1,000. That means for every one person in the Huntington, West Virginia metropolitan area there is at least 30 affected by drug abuse. The Huntington/Ashland, KY/Ironton, OH/Portsmouth, OH region has over 359,000 residents.
A Detroit, Michigan woman was the latest person caught in Scioto County, Ohio of trafficking fentanyl.
During the traffic stop, the woman was driving a 2021 Ford Edge with Tennessee tags and was hit with marked lane violations on the State Route 823. The driver granted consent to a search of the vehicle.
Portsmouth, Ohio is the nation's most deadliest city. Fentanyl and heroin rocked the community of 25,000.
The woman had 600 grams of fentanyl in a magnetic box concealed under the vehicle. She was charged with trafficking and could face up to 22 years in the iron college.
She is not the only one.
Nearly three years ago, a Dayton man and a Portsmouth woman were nabbed for methamphetamine, fentanyl and carfentanil.
In 2019, the man and the woman were stopped on U.S. Route 23 near Lucasville. The man had an outstanding warrant for previous encounters and it automatically led to a search of his vehicle. The canine Bruno got a hit of the vehicle. Under the vehicle was two pounds of crystal methamphetamine, 14 grams of heroin/fentanyl and over $3,300 in cash. The value of their load was nearly $60,000.
Then there was a search of their home. The Scioto County Sheriff's Department and Portsmouth Police used cacine Dark to search the home and found paraphilia, bags, scales and undetermined substances inside the home.
The man had a criminal charge out of Butler County and Montgomery County. The two are currently serving time in the iron college. The man got 15 years while the woman got nine years.
Dayton man caught in Scioto County.
There were twopeople from Huntington, West Virginia caught on Ohio State Route 823. The troopers stopped a 2008 Lincoln Navigator on the highway for a turn signal violation. The cacine alerted to hit and found two pounds of methamphetamine in the vehicle. The women were arrested and face up to 22 years in the iron college. This happened just this week.
Then another incident happened during the same week. A Columbus, Ohio woman was charged with 140 grams of heroin and 27 grams of cocaine. The woman was driving on Ohio State Route 823. She was detained for an ounce of marijuana. The troopers found all of the goods hidden in seats wrapped around foil. Now this woman could face up to 40 years in the iron college.
And there was another incident where a man from Dayton and a woman from Portsmouth caught in smuggling.
Portsmouth Police Chief Debby Brewer and Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman announce that a Portsmouth resident along with a Dayton, Ohio man were arrested on drug charges after an investigation conducted by the Southern Ohio Drug Task Force.
Portsmouth woman is one of dozens arrest in drug busts.
At approximately 5:28 p.m. on January 24th , 2022, task force detectives assisted by Portsmouth Police Dept. SWAT executed a narcotic related search warrant at the residence of the woman, located at 930 30th St. Portsmouth, Ohio.
Upon a search of the residence and property, detectives seized 410 grams of suspected crystal methamphetamine, 28 grams of suspected heroin, digital scales, sandwich baggies, $608 cash, and additional evidence of drug trafficking. Estimated street value of suspected drugs seized is $7,400.
The woman was arrested and charged with trafficking and possession of drugs, both felonies of the 1st degree and trafficking and possession of grugs, both felonies of the 2nd degree.
Age doesn't matter. It affects everyone.
Additionally, the man was arrested and charged with trafficking and possession of drugs, both felonies of the 1st degree and trafficking and possession of drugs, both felonies of the 2nd degree.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, Sheriff Thoroughman, New Boston Police Chief Carl Compton, Pike County Sheriff Tracy Evans, Lawrence County Sheriff Jeff Lawless, and Portsmouth Police Chief Brewer announce the early morning drug raid in New Boston, Ohio.
The drug investigation and raid was conducted by the newly formed Southern Ohio Organized & Major Crime Task Force, part of the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission. The task force was assisted in the early morning raid, located at 4222 Oak Street, New Boston, Ohio by the Portsmouth P.D. SWAT and Portsmouth Fire Department tactical medics.
A man living on 4222 Oak Street, New Boston was arrested. The man was charged with weapons under disability, a felony of the 3rd degree, possession of drugs – crack cocaine, a felony of the 3rd degree, trafficking in drugs – crack cocaine, a felony of the 3rd degree, possession of fentanyl, a felony of the 4th degree, trafficking in fentanyl, a felony of the 4th degree, and possession of criminal tools, a felony of the 5th degree.
Portsmouth man is one of the many traffickers caught.
There have been numerous arrests throughout Portsmouth, Ohio. And it seems like for every person they nab, at least 20 more pop up.
All those involved are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
I want you to understand that drug abuse and mental illness go hand and hand.
Millions of Americans face these struggles and it's necessary for those to get the right treatment when it comes to drug abuse and mental illness. Locking up everyone will not stop drug abuse, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation and mental illness.
Call the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357). It is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders.
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The federal trial of Ahmaud Arbrey's killers will conclude soon.
The three men were convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbrey in 2021. They were handed state charges of LIFE without the possibility of parole. Now the U.S. Justice Department is now seeking to add more toppings on that sandwich. In an earlier attempt, the feds were working a plea deal for the three killers to admit guilt of it being a hate crime to get a concurrent bid and potential pardons. Ahmaud's family protested it and condemned the plea deal.
They said that the government was going to easy on them. They want the full trial and everything to come to light. They want everything the two men and their neighbor shared online or through text messages shared. They want to ensure that their families can't collect any royalties or money from book deals, movies or charitable donations.
I will mention their names.
ABC News reports that Travis McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan shared texts and offensive social media posts in which the word NIGGER was mentioned. On top of that, they shared videos from racist singer Johnny Rebel. The remarks were read in the courtroom.
Now in federal court, there are no cameras. There are only courtroom sketches and reporters who are there to detail as much information as they can.
Two of the three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery repeatedly used racial slurs in text messages and social media posts, including some violent comments by Arbery's shooter about Black people, an FBI witness testified Wednesday in their federal hate crimes trial.
Federal hate crimes trial. If convicted, they an additional 35 years.
FBI intelligence analyst Amy Vaughan led the jury through more than two dozen conversations that McMichael and Bryan had with others, identified only by their initials, in the months and years before the 25-year-old Black man's killing. The FBI wasn’t able to access the phone of Greg McMichael, Travis McMichael's father, because was encrypted, Vaughan said.
In text and Facebook conversations with friends, Travis McMichael frequently used the N-word to describe Black people. In a Facebook conversation with a friend, he also shared a video of a young Black boy dancing on a TV show with a racist song that included the N-word playing over it. He also said that Black people “ruin everything” and said more than once he was glad he wasn't a Black person, using a racial slur.
In other social media posts, Travis McMichael mentioned violence against Black people. In December 2018, he commented on a Facebook video of a Black man playing a prank on a white person: “I'd kill that fucking nigger.”
And in June 2017, he shared a TV news story about a violent confrontation between two white women and two Black customers upset about cold food at a Georgia restaurant, using a racial slur to comment that he would beat the Black people "to death if they did that to (name redacted by the FBI) or my mother and sister.” He added that he would have no more remorse than putting down a rabid animal.
The McMichaels armed themselves and used a pickup truck to chase Arbery as he ran through their coastal Georgia neighborhood on Feb. 23, 2020. Bryan, a neighbor, joined the pursuit in his own truck and recorded cellphone video of Travis McMichael blasting Arbery with a shotgun. No arrests were made until the video leaked online two months later.
All three men were convicted of murder in a Georgia state court last fall. Their second trial began Monday in U.S. District Court on hate crime charges. Prosecutors say the McMichaels and Bryan violated Arbery's civil rights and targeted him because he was Black.
Ahmaud Arbrey will never be forgotten.
Defense attorneys have insisted the deadly pursuit of Arbery was motivated by an earnest, though erroneous, suspicion that Arbery had committed crimes.
HuffPost also detailed the government showing jurors messages from Travis McMichael’s phone beginning in March 2019. McMichael asked a friend, identified as H.B., where they “ended up last night.”
H.B. wrote back: “niggers everywhere.”
“Damn. They ruin everything,” McMichael replied. “That’s why I love what I do. Not a nigger in sight.”
“Ha ha ha,” H.B. wrote. “What do you do?”
McMichael described himself as a “government contractor driving boats for Navy & Marines.” He added: “Love it. Zero niggers work with me.”
The hate crimes trial is being heard by a jury of eight white people, three Black people and one Hispanic person.
Evidence presented in court Wednesday showed Bryan also used the N-word, but his preferred slur was a derogatory characterization of a Black person's lips. Over a number of years, Bryan exchanged racist messages on Martin Luther King Jr. Day that mocked the holiday. In messages sent in the days surrounding Arbery's killing, Bryan was upset that his daughter was dating a Black man.
Greg McMichael posted a meme on Facebook in 2016 saying white Irish slaves were treated worse than any race in the U.S. but that the Irish aren't asking for handouts.
“I ain't really shocked,” Arbery's father, Marcus Arbery, told reporters outside the courthouse. Still, he said he didn't realize “all that hate was in those three men.”
Defense attorneys had few questions for the FBI analyst and didn't dispute the racist posts. They said in their opening statements to the jury Monday that racist comments by their clients were offensive and indefensible but don't prove that they committed hate crimes.
Travis McMichael’s attorney, Amy Lee Copeland, said some of his texts and posts lacked context, and “you can’t hear that inflection of voice and see what’s going on.”
Copeland also asked Derek Thomas, who posted the prank video that elicited a violent comment from Travis McMichael, about their long friendship. Thomas testified that they have known each other since high school and frequently went hunting and fishing together. He said he often checks up on Travis McMichael's mother since the McMichaels' arrests and convictions.
“Is it fair to say you love the man but hate the words he used?” Copeland asked Thomas.
He replied: “Yes, ma'am.”
In another instance, McMichael was meeting someone at a Cracker Barrel in January 2019. A person identified as M.B. told him there were “hood rats” somewhere nearby.
In response, McMichael said: “They need to change Cracker Barrel to Nigger bucket.”
In August 2019, McMichael referred to a location in Georgia as “Niggerville,” according to evidence presented at the trial. He also shared a racist song by the late singer Johnny Rebel with the n-word in its title. The song was played for jurors.
On social media, prosecutors said, McMichael was just as inflammatory. Writing on Facebook, he referred to Black people as “subhuman savages,” they said.
On a post shared by McMichael’s friend Derrick Thomas, describing an incident where a firecracker blew up in a Black person’s face, McMichael wrote that he wished the explosion blew “that nigger’s head off.”
At some point, McMichael told Thomas that a gun was recently stolen from his truck. According to Thomas, McMichael believed the person who stole the gun was white. However, prosecutors accused Thomas of changing his story, saying he’d previously told jurors that McMichael believed the thief was a Black person.
Amy Copeland, McMichael’s attorney, argued that many of the messages lacked context because you could not hear the inflection of McMichael’s voice.
Bryan also had a record of using racial slurs toward Black people, prosecutors said. In private text messages from 2020, Bryan said he’d been “working so all the niggers” could take the day off on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Bryan did not approve of his daughter dating a Black person, according to prosecutors. In a text message, Bryan told someone: “She has her a nigger now. I’ve been calling it for a while. Not surprised.”
Both McMichaels and Bryan were sentenced to life in iron college in the state's murder case.
Racist comments by the men weren't presented as evidence in the murder trial, in which prosecutors downplayed issues of race and focused on proving the three had no justification for pursuing and killing Arbery.
The hate crimes charges could add 35 years to the LIFE terms. The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
British and Australian media critics say that News Corp and its founder Rupert Murdoch have caused so much chaos in the world. The American president and Canadian prime minister can agree with the notion. The media personalities could be banned from entry in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned that extremism is on the rise in Canada.
The United States and NATO are in the midst of a global conflict with Russia. The Russian military is advancing towards Ukraine and the world is bracing for a war.
On Fox, the endless talk about Hillary Clinton. The Canadian far right trucker convoys. The "free crack pipes." Blaming President Joe Biden for inflation. Calling his potentially Supreme Court nominee a racist to whining about Democrats not wearing masks in public is the themes of Fox. Of course conspiracies are what keeps Fox's ratings up and profits flowing.
It was revealed that the former president allegedly tore up classified documents and destroyed records which violated the Presidential Records Act. The former president was accused of flushing documents down the toilet.
He took classified documents and unauthorized material to his Mar-a-Lago resort. The letter left by former president Barack Obama, the "love letter" from North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-Un and the controversial hurricane track map in which he drew on with a Sharpie pen were obtained by the National Archives Records Administration.
The former president also lost his accounting team in New York. The Attorney General Letitia James has built up pressure to get documents from the former president's companies. She has subpoenaed many of the former president's allies including his two children.
Also Truth Social is off to a rocky start. Washed Up 45 has already sent a response on the far-right platform that is supposed to be a counter to Twitter. He was permanently banned from Twitter. He became the first U.S. president to be barred from social media. At his peak, he had 88.4 million followers on Twitter.
Softball Hannity still talks about Clinton.
Also many Fox personalities exchanges with the former White House chief of staff are revealed to the public and it drew scrutiny on the most annoying media personality, "Softball" Hannity.
The softball is still obsessed with her. It has been over six years and he continues to bemoan about the woman like she is the current president.
But here we are... Talking about Hillary Clinton. She is no longer in office. She is not the President of the United States. She is a private citizen. She has no intentions of running for president again. She is basically dismissing the noise of the far-right.
Trump & Fox are desperately spinning up a fake scandal to distract from his real ones. So it's a day that ends in Y.
The more his misdeeds are exposed, the more they lie.
For those interested in reality, here's a good debunking of their latest nonsense.https://t.co/iYY8Uxuogx
Fox literally having a meltdown over the John Durham memo which makes a baseless claim that Clinton spied on Washed Up 45's presidential campaign in 2016.
I am reminded that the former president as a candidate in 2016 saying, "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."
The louder Fox "News" whines about Hillary, the more they bank on their viewers STILL not realizing how she nailed Trump's Big Lie about the 2020 election--back in 2016.
There are so many issues in the country but according to the Fox people, the real problem is Hillary Clinton, the private citizen who has no impact on politics.
In a court filing last week, Durham, who was appointed by former Attorney General William Barr as special counsel to investigate the FBI's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, claimed that tech entrepreneur Rodney Joffe had used nonpublic government domain name system data to look into supposed links between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank.
The filing was part of a case against Michael Sussmann, a former attorney for Joffe who worked on behalf of Clinton's 2016 campaign. Durham has accused Sussmann of lying when he told the FBI in 2016 that he was not representing a client when presenting data that potentially established a link between Washed Up 45's business and Alfa Bank based in Moscow.
Durham's filing alleged that Sussmann got the relevant information from Joffe.
However, as the Vanity Fair article shared by Clinton noted, Sussmann's conversation with federal authorities had already been reported on last year, and Durham had not claimed that the White House had been infiltrated or that the Clinton campaign had paid Joffe.
The court filing also did not state that the White House data that had come under scrutiny had come from the former president's administration.
