Former Arizona lawmaker Jim Kolbe passed away from a stroke.
Former Arizona Republican congressman who was openly gay while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives passed away from a stroke at the age of 80.
Jim Kolbe came out as gay in August 1996 after his vote in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act spurred efforts by some gay rights activists to out him. He won re-election that year. In 2000, he became the first openly gay person to address the Republican National Convention, although his speech did not address gay rights.
Kolbe served in the Arizona Legislature before being elected in 1984 to Congress, where he often was at odds with other Republicans over his support for free trade and an immigrant guest worker program.
Kolbe started his political career at 15 as a page for the late U.S Sen. Barry Goldwater in Washington and later served on the board that oversees the page program. He attended Northwestern University and then Stanford, earning a master’s degree in economics.
From 1965 to 1969, he served in the Navy. He was deployed to Vietnam, where he was awarded a congressional medal for valor.
After stints working in the Illinois governor’s office and in real estate, he entered Arizona politics. Kolbe was elected in 1976 to the state Senate and served until 1982. He was sworn in to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1985, the first Republican since Arizona statehood to represent a majority-Democratic district in the southern part of the state.
Kolbe was known in Congress for his advocacy for free trade, international development, immigration and Social Security reform. He also waged an unsuccessful campaign to eliminate the penny due to production costs.
He repeatedly co-sponsored a bill to scrap the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on homosexuality. He sat on the national advisory board of the Log Cabin Republicans, which represents the LGBT community.
Kolbe was married to Sarah Dinham, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Arizona, from 1977 to 1992.
In 2013, Kolbe married his partner, Hector Alfonso. That year, Kolbe was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.
“He belongs to so many people,” Alfonso was quoted as saying Saturday by the Arizona Daily Star. “He gave his life for this city. He loved Tucson, he loved Arizona.”
Some people might have questioned Kolbe at times on political decisions, Alfonso said, “but no one could question his integrity and his love for Arizona,” the paper reported.
Kolbe endorsed anti-LGBTQ bills before denouncing them.
Although a moderate, pro-choice Republican, Kolbe came under fire for being anti-LGBTQ despite being associated with the community. It took almost 20 years and the Obergefell v. Hodges decision for him to finally support marriage equality.
Others anti-LGBTQ gay Republicans were Mark Foley and Aaron Schock before they came full circle and embrace Washed Up 45.
Kolbe would end up leaving the Republican Party in 2018 shortly after Martha McSally threw away her moderate positions for the extremism. McSally would lose to bisexual Democrat and moderate Kyrsten Sinema in a competitive Senate race.
McSally after being appointed to the Senate would later lose to Mark Kelly, the husband of Gabrielle Giffords, the lawmaker who succeeded Kolbe and survivor of a mass shooting attack.
Conservatives are easily manipulated by disinformation and fake news. They will go beyond the pale to prove a conspiracy theory about a candidate they never met in their lives. They would make baseless accusations about the person they don't know personally without even fact checking the source. They literally spent their worthless lives worrying about issues that don't feed their families, heat their homes, improve their economic struggles and their social life.
It's almost like they literally want to keep people upset over issues that deflect from their own incompetence.
Yeah, Hunter Biden is the youngest and surviving son of President Joe Biden. He has a troubled history and has overcome mental illness and drug abuse. The president and First Lady Jill Biden love him and know his struggles will result in political fire from the Republicans.
The far right and the stench of Elon Musk.
Musk said he will release the tweet from The New York Post story on Hunter Biden's laptop and expose the executive he fired last month.
That arrived Friday night in the form of a lengthy and arduously slow tweet thread from pro-Kremlin leftist Matt Taibbi, who Musk appears to have leaked the documents to and coordinated for his findings to be posted to Twitter.
He unrolled a lengthy Twitter thread which I will not share. It is a worthless thread of allegations.
Taibbi along with Katie Halper pushed the Bernie Sanders was cheated, Biden was touchy feeley, the Tara Reade allegation and cognitive decline noise. None of this disinformation worked in their favor. Now this Twitter Files noise is a flop.
Elon Musk enlist Matt Taibbi, a known propagandist for Russia to unroll his Twitter Files.
Reade, a California woman who once briefly worked for Biden when he was senator claimed he sexually abused her. The woman claims the junk food media suppressed her claims and now she is asking Republicans to look into it. However she does not want to be under oath when she makes her case.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY) is calling for investigations into Google, Facebook and Twitter for blocking the story.
The story was supposed to be an October Surprise by Washed Up 45, his allies like Sean "Softball" Hannity, Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon. Giuliani somehow got the hard drive from a nearly blind computer repairman who claimed that Hunter left it. He saw some things on it and instead of calling the feds, he goes to Giuliani who in turn notified Washed Up 45 and News Corp about the details of this laptop, hard drive, emails, nude pictures, cocaine use and whatever.
Somehow, it got lost in the noise. Washed Up 45 (having tested positive for the coronavirus) tried to debate Biden over Hunter. Then former vice president said that his son has struggles like many others and that regardless of how things are, he loves him and understands that other Americans deal with this as well.
Conservatives, the so called compassionate folks spend their lives worrying about Biden's health, the allegation of sexual abuse from a woman who spews pro-Kremlin propaganda, this laptop and the junk food media not covering these "scandals."
CNN kills HLN and lets go of Robin Meade and others.
Warner Bros Discovery has eliminated HLN, the CNN sister network.
Chris Licht has decided to cut HLN's longtime host Robin Meade, shutdown all of HLN live programs and eliminated all staff.
The news network is shutting down “Morning Express,” the daily program hosted by Robin Meade that has aired on CNN’s sister channel HLN since 2005.
Meade and her program’s staff will be departing CNN as part of an across-the-board reduction underway as parent company Warner Bros. Discovery attempts to bring down its debt.
Meade’s breezy, fast-paced news program based at CNN Center in Atlanta has a following among small-town viewers outside of the media hubs of Washington and New York. “Morning Express” is best known for “Salute to Troops,” a daily segment celebrating members of the military and their families.
Meade also has a side career as a country music singer and songwriter.
“Morning Express” will be replaced by a simulcast of “CNN This Morning,” the recently launched program with Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins.
“Weekend Express” on HLN will shut down as well. No date has been set on a final show, according to a CNN representative who confirmed the cancellation.
Ratings for “Morning Express” have been in decline as the number of people waking up with traditional TV continues to shrink because of cord-cutting and increased competition from online news sources.
“Morning Express” also had the challenge of airing on a network with little other live programming and had become a destination for true crime shows such as “Forensic Files.”
The mission for HLN — once known as CNN Headline News — has become even less clear recently, as it aired a marathon of “The West Wing” episodes during the Thanksgiving holiday.
In a memo to staff sent Thursday, CNN Chairman Chris Licht said HLN will no longer produce live programming. Kathleen Finch, chairman and chief content officer, US Networks Group for Warner Bros Discovery, will oversee HLN’s crime programming.
An appeal court decision from the U.S. District Appeals of the 11th Circuit has come down against District Judge Alieen Cannon's decision to appoint a special master. The decision is to formally end the special master thereby giving the Department of Justice the authority to continue its criminal probe into classified top secret documents being held at Mar-a-Lago.
In August, Washer Up 45 posted on Truth Social that his Florida resort was searched by the FBI.
The FBI did a search in the early morning on a warrant to obtain documents the former president failed to return to the National Archives. On top of that,he tried to use executive privilege to excuse his actions despite he is no longer the president.
The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s order appointing the special master to look through the 11,000 documents taken from Mar-a-Lago, in order to determine what documents should not be handed over to investigators. Washed Up 45’s legal team had requested the special master, which was approved by a Washed Up 45-appointed judge in a widely panned ruling many legal observers did not expect to stand.
The decision by the three-judge panel represents a significant win for federal prosecutors, clearing the way for them to use as part of their investigation the entire tranche of documents seized during an Aug. 8 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. It also amounts to a sharp repudiation of arguments by the former president's lawyers, who for months had said that the former president was entitled to have a so-called “special master” conduct a neutral review of the thousands of documents taken from the property.
The ruling from the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit had been expected given the skeptical questions the judges directed at a Washed Up 45 lawyer during arguments last week, and because two of the three judges on the panel had already ruled in favor of the Justice Department in an earlier dispute over the special master.
The decision was a unanimous opinion from the panel of Republican appointees, including two who were selected by the former president. In it, the court rejected each argument by Washed Up 45 and his attorneys for why a special master was necessary, including his claims that various seized records were protected by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.
“It is indeed extraordinary for a warrant to be executed at the home of a former president — but not in a way that affects our legal analysis or otherwise gives the judiciary license to interfere in an ongoing investigation,” the judges wrote.
A Washed Up 45 spokesperson said Thursday’s decision was “purely procedural” and did not address the “impropriety” of the raid, and promised that the ex-president would “continue to fight” against the Justice Department. Lawyers for the former president did not immediately respond when asked if they would appeal the ruling.
The special master litigation has played out alongside an ongoing investigation examining the potential criminal mishandling of national defense information as well as efforts to possibly obstruct the documents probe. Attorney General Merrick Garland last month appointed Jack Smith, a veteran public corruption prosecutor, to serve as special counsel overseeing that investigation.
It remains unclear how much longer the investigation will last, or who, if anyone, might be charged. But the probe has shown signs of intensifying, with investigators questioning multiple Washed Up 45 associates about the documents and granting one key ally immunity to ensure his testimony before a federal grand jury. And the appeals court decision is likely to speed the investigation along by cutting short the outside review of the records.
The conflict over the special master began just weeks after the FBI’s search, when the former president sued in federal court in Florida seeking the appointment of an independent arbiter to review the roughly 13,000 documents the Justice Department says were taken from the home.
Washed Up 45 appointed judge is considered worthless.
A federal judge, Aileen Cannon, granted the former president's team’s request, naming veteran Brooklyn judge Raymond Dearie to serve as special master and tasking him with reviewing the seized records and filtering out from the criminal investigation any documents that might be covered by claims of executive privilege or attorney-client privilege.
She also barred the Justice Department from using in its criminal investigation any of the seized records, including the roughly 100 with classification markings, pending the completion of Dearie’s work.
The Justice Department objected to the appointment, saying it was an unnecessary hindrance to its criminal investigation and that Washed Up 45 had no credible basis to invoke either attorney-client privilege or executive privilege to shield the records from investigators.
It sought, as a first step, to regain access to the classified documents. A federal appeals panel sided with prosecutors in September, permitting the Justice Department to resume its review of the documents with classification markings. Two of the judges on that panel — Andrew Brasher and Britt Grant, both Washed Up 45 appointees — were part of Thursday’s ruling as well.
The department also pressed for unfettered access to the much larger trove of unclassified documents, saying such records could contain important evidence for their investigation.
In its ruling Thursday, the appeals court directed Cannon to dismiss the lawsuit that gave rise to Dearie’s appointment and suggested Washed Up 45 had no legal basis to challenge the search in the first place.
“The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so,” the judges wrote.
“Either approach,” they added, “would be a radical reordering of our caselaw limiting the federal courts’ involvement in criminal investigations. And both would violate bedrock separation-of-powers limitations.”
As we close out 2022, America has become more divided. The noise managed to win the House of Representatives. We are awaiting the results of the Georgia senate runoff between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Herschel Walker.
President Joe Biden has accomplished far more than his predecessor when it comes to jobs and policies. Matter of fact, history will judge Biden as equal to his former boss Barack Obama.
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are being attacked by the noise relentlessly.
Some of the attacks are rooted in ageism, racism and classism.
The Republicans take control of the House or Representatives. They already signal impeachment, national abortion bans, more guns on the streets, ending birthright citizenship, stopping the Biden pledge to cancel student debt, use taxpayer money to build a border wall, ban transgender people from playing gender based sports, start endless investigations into Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, the FBI, the pull out in Afghanistan, repeal the Affordable Care Act, repeal the Inflation Reduction Act and enforce voter ID laws on all Americans.
Republicans have an anchor in Washed Up 45. He declared his intention to run for president and of course, it was considered a yawn. It was not the spectacle of 2015 when he descended down an escalator at Trump Tower and 2020 in the middle of a global pandemic and an impeachment trial.
The former president is also trying to starve off a handful of scandals that hurt his bid and Republicans midterm expectations. They only won a few seats and it appears the Republicans running on inflation, crime and the border are going to be thrown out.
These are the priorities Republicans want to focus on. Instead of solutions, it's blame, tarnish and troll.
Despite the noise, Biden has gotten the results.
Job growth was much better than expected in November despite the Federal Reserve’s aggressive efforts to slow the labor market and tackle inflation.
Nonfarm payrolls increased 263,000 for the month while the unemployment rate was 3.7%, the Labor Department reported Friday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for an increase of 200,000 on the payrolls number and 3.7% for the jobless rate.
The monthly gain was a slight decrease from October’s upwardly revised 284,000. A broader measure of unemployment that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons edged lower to 6.7%.
The numbers likely will do little to slow a Fed that has been raising interest rates steadily this year to bring down inflation still running near its highest level in more than 40 years. The rate increases have brought the Fed’s benchmark overnight borrowing rate to a target range of 3.75%-4%.
In another blow to the Fed’s anti-inflation efforts, average hourly earnings jumped 0.6% for the month, double the Dow Jones estimate. Wages were up 5.1% on a year-over-year basis, also well above the 4.6% expectation.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 200 points after the report as the hot jobs data could make the Fed even more aggressive. Treasury yields jumped after the news, with the two-year note, the most sensitive to monetary policy, up more than 10 basis points to about 4.36%.
“To have 263,000 jobs added even after policy rates have been raised by some [375] basis points is no joke,” said Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management. “The labor market is hot, hot, hot, heaping pressure on the Fed to continue raising policy rates.”
Wins.
Leisure and hospitality led the job gains, adding 88,000 positions.
Other sector gainers included health care (45,000), government (42,000) and other services, a category that includes personal and laundry services and which showed a total gain of 24,000. Social assistance saw a rise of 23,000, which the Labor Department said brings the sector back to where it was in February 2020 before the Covid pandemic.
Construction added 20,000 positions, while information was up 19,000 and manufacturing saw a gain of 14,000.
On the downside, retail establishments reported a loss of 30,000 positions heading into what is expected to be a busy holiday shopping season. Transportation and warehousing also saw a decline, down 15,000.
The numbers come as the Fed has raised rates half a dozen times this year, including four consecutive 0.75 percentage point increases.
Despite the moves, job gains had been running strong this year if a bit lower than the rapid pace of 2021. On monthly basis, payrolls have been up an average of 392,000 against 562,000 for 2021. Demand for labor continues to outstrip supply, with about 1.7 positions open for every available worker.
Republicans see the only path to victory is basically obstruct and complain about the president. They won't offer solutions or policies. All they care about is trying to keep folks angry with culture wars and distractions.
President Joe Biden's headaches:
The Karens in the Republican House and Senate.
Gun violence and Congress not doing anything to stop it.
Inflation.
Two Democratic senators and one independent senator who is a democratic socialist.
The members of The Squad and Progressive Caucus.
The junk food media and their never ending dramatizing of world events.
Anti-Vaxxers.
Lawmakers and activists who protest the CDC guidelines during the pandemic.
The endless culture wars that Republicans find outrage in.
Washed Up 45 and his minions on Fox, Newsmax, OANN and the internet.
Facebook and TikTok and the idiots who run it and the idiots who post on it.
Fox, The Daily Mail, Newsmax and OANN's relentless talk about conspiracies, Hunter Biden, Ashley Biden and the president's mental capacity and health.
The endless racism towards Biden's allies Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Barack Obama.
The relentless talk about spending despite the former president's reckless things.
The lack of civility towards fellow Americans.
The coronavirus and monkeypox 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.
An active shooter doesn't care about the politics, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, your finances, your family, your plans that day, your successes, your failures, and most importantly, your life.
You're not safe in the school, the concert, the hospital, the church, the casino, the bus station, the subway, the light rail train, the buses, the malls, the local big box store, the political rally, the protest rally, the women's center for reproductive surgeries, the mosque, the synagogue, the state buildings, the workplace, the gas station, the family picnic, the food truck rally, the funerals, the birthday parties, the graduations, the wedding, the televised events, the sporting events and many more events that have some terrorist with a firearm. Domestic violence, suicide, racism, culture war inspired, politically motivated and international operative inspired are types of gun violence.
Food prices, energy prices, rent, city services and college education have risen. Companies are struggling to find workers. They are now trying to push incentives to get workers in.
Real Reasons To Why Unemployment Rate Stays The Way It Is!
DEAD
BORN
THE PANDEMIC
CLIMATE CHANGE
IN PRISON
IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
IN HIGH SCHOOL
IN COLLEGE NOT LOOKING
VOLUNTEER
DISABLED
INFLATION
STAY AT HOME PARENT
RETIRED
QUIT ON THEIR OWN
TERMINATED FROM EMPLOYMENT
NOT HIRING UNQUALIFIED
NOT HIRING TOO QUALIFIED
ACTIVE MILITARY
NATURAL DISASTERS
MASS SHOOTINGS DISRUPT DAILY ROUTINE
BEING LAID OFF DUE TO CLOSING OR STAFF REDUCTION
DESTRUCTION TO FACILITY OR PROPRETY
OUTSOURCING JOBS TO OTHER STATES OR COUNTRIES
BEING UNDOCUMENTED IN FEAR OF I.C.E. OR U.S. AGENCIES
BEING PUBLICLY OUTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA DOING SHAMEFUL ACTS
PARTICIPATING IN UNCIVIL OR VIOLENT PROTESTS
Jobs are looking good despite fears of an economic slowdown.
Companies are still trying to hire employees. With the average wages stagnant, many are not looking forward to returning to a job that pays dirt wages. Many who worked in the retail, restaurant and low end service industry are not willing to take a job for less than $10 an hour. Matter of fact, no one can survive on $15 an hour.
Republicans don't see the bigger picture itself. They rather continue to believe in conspiracies about people collecting the safety net and not going back to work.
Give them a liveable wage and maybe things might improve in the job market.
We can't always assume that folks are lazy. People are literally dying from being exposed to the coronavirus and folks are tired of the status quo of their jobs.
Many single mothers are having trouble trying to find quality daycare or family members to watch children. On top of that, some have lost family members due to the pandemic. A homemaker may have lost their spouse. Some may have no choice but to watch their children or loved ones due to the aftermath of the pandemic.
Folks are still trying to rebound from medical bills, late rent payments, owing taxes and college loans.
Republicans are white nationalists without a conscience.
Washed Up 45's presidency and Republican controlled governments killed millions of Americans. Biden has a slim majority in Congress and things can't be done with obstruction from both parties.
Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions.
We need to put pressure on Republicans and Democrats to do something to improve everyone's lives.
The call number to the U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official phone number, 202-224-3121. Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that women deserve the right to safe medical procedures. Let them know that their failure to pass legislation to lower prices are the reasons why the economy is in a free fall.
Twitter and Facebook banned Ye. Even Parler banned him.
Black media agitators seem to face more heat than their white counterparts.
Kyrie Irving, Candace Owens, Kanye West, DaBaby and Herschel Walker are the latest examples of failure caused by their antics.
But let's ignore Washed Up 45, Sean "Softball" Hannity, Jerry Jones, Lindsey Graham, Dan Snyder, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bill O'Reilly.
LeBron James was right, they want Black America to answer for every Black noise maker.
I don't want to answer for these idiots. They made their bed, they'll have to lie in it.
Kanye West was permanently suspended on Twitter after he posted quotes from Adolf Hitler and the Nazi symbol on his official social media. He was reinstated only three weeks ago.
Ye also walked away from the Parler deal. He was supposedly going to buy the far right platform for $156 million. After losing his endorsements, his modeling contract, Adidas, Def Jam, his management team and his most of his fans, he was forced to cut the deal.
Parler is owned by George Farmer, a far right socialite who is married to far right extremist Candace Owens. Owens is under fire for her fake documentary claiming that George Floyd died from fentanyl and not the goddamn knee on his neck by that dirty ass cop.
Owens is facing a public boycott as well.
Ye had offered to buy rightwing-leaning social media site Parler in October, but the company said this week that the deal has fallen through. At the time, Ye and Parlement Technologies, which owns Parler, said the acquisition would be completed in the last three months of the year. The sale price and other details were not disclosed.
"This decision was made in the interest of both parties in mid-November," Parlement Technologies said in a statement Thursday. "Parler will continue to pursue future opportunities for growth and the evolution of the platform for our vibrant community."
He is required by law to pay child support which rounds up to $200,000 a month (approx. $50,000) for his four children.
He also lost the Donda Academy. The private school in Simi Valley was closed and those who enrolled their children in are suing for their tuition enrollment fees. It permanently closed after he made the "def con III on the Jews" remark.
"Free speech" advocate and Twitter CEO Elon Musk was warned by the European Union that relentless hate and misinformation on the platform will result in sanctions, fines and a permanent removal of the platform. Over 124 major companies have either suspended or removed their advertising from the platform.
Musk fired the CEO, CFO and Twitter Safety and Accountability Team. He laid off 50% of the staff and forced out an additional 30% of the staff. His overseas staff are vowing to sue him and the investors in court. U.S. and other countries are signaling investigations into the company's strategy and seeing if Musk had illegally purchase the platform.
He reinstated Washed Up 45 and ironic, 45 of the most notorious hatemongers are reinstated on Twitter.
Musk even liked a post from Ye.
Ye went from one of the most popular acts in the country to one of the most hated media personality in America.
What the hell happen to him?
I get that he supported Washed Up 45 in 2020 and even ran for president to siphon Black votes and undermine Joe Biden. I get that he was married to social media maven Kim Kardashian and had four children with her. But his alleged cheating, her constant need to be in the spotlight and his need for attention doomed their marriage.
Ye has threatened Pete Davidson, Taylor Swift, Trevor Noah, D.L. Hughley, Jay-Z, Big Sean, Drake, John Legend, Beyonce, Wiz Khalifa, Kim Kardashian and Amber Rose in the past.
They claim he is mentally I'll. No he is not. This is who he is and Black America must distance from him.
In order to hurt his money, stop playing his music. Mainstream radio, SiriusXM, Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora and YouTube may be considering removal of Ye's music. That will hurt him big time.
Ye appeared on InfoWars and the TimCast podcast. The extremists allowed Ye to be himself. He also seen with closeted white extremist Nick Fuentes and gay white extremist Milo Yiannopoulos.
Republicans were happy to embrace Ye and now its come back to haunt them.
It is not over. A recount will determine if Lauren Boebert is the winner.
Even though Democrat candidate Adam Frisch conceded, the state of Colorado has not certified the results of the 3rd Congressional District race. That means Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is not actually the winner.
She may have to wait a week or so for the state to do a mandatory recount which will decide whether Boebert wins with less than 600 votes or Frisch actually won and will be certified upon completion.
The controversial lawmaker became a major problem in Congress. As Frisch pointed out, Boebert, Washed Up 45, the Freedumb Caucus, The Squad, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Fox, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and 80 other lawmakers are part of the "angertainment" which is driving this country into chaos.
Boebert became so much of a problem, nearly 50% of her constituents voted against her.
Now with Congress looming in its lame duck session, Boebert must sit out hearing until she is certified by the state as the winner.
Frisch, a former Aspen city councilman who did far better in the red district than he was expected to, has already conceded the race to Boebert, a first-term congresswoman. But Griswold said she must follow election law.
“The results of the District 3 race reinforce the fact that every vote matters,” Griswold said in a statement. “Colorado voters have made their voices heard, and I am ordering this recount in accordance with Colorado law to confirm the will of the voters.”
If the recount favors Adam Frisch, he will be certified the winner.
The recount must be completed by Dec. 13.
The Secretary of State’s Office said the 26 counties that make up the sprawling 3rd District — in addition to a part of Eagle County — will work with their bipartisan canvass boards to complete a logic and accuracy test on the required tabulation equipment.
Then, the counties will begin recounting all ballots in the race “in the same manner they were processed during the election.” That means the counties will rescan the ballots using its tabulation equipment, except for San Juan County, which will manually recount its ballots, the office said.
Because the recount was automatically triggered, the Secretary of State’s office foots the bill.
TJ Holmes and Amy Robach are dating. Paparazzi spotted the two being intimate. They are both married and hosts of GMA and GMA: 3. The two have been sharing chemistry on and off screen.
Holmes grabbing Robach from behind while bending over into the trunk of a car. The photo was taken two weeks before Thanksgiving on a getaway at a remote cottage.
The two have went dark on social media after the noise spotted them.
ABC News has no comment on the matter but many believe they put their journalism ethics at risk. On top of that, they are being criticized for having an affair.
Who are we to judge?
It is not my business to worry about Holmes, 45 and Roach, 49.
They seem to be happy together and their relationship should not be a problem to anyone but those who loved them.
The noise wants TJ Holmes and Amy Robach fired out the cannon.
A source claimed to the outlet their romance started in March, around the time they were training together for the New York City Half Marathon.
The insider claims that Robach and her husband, Andrew Shue, as well as Holmes and his wife, Marilee Fiebig, went their separate ways in August. But the co-anchors were spotted getting cozy in bars near ABC News back in May.
According to Page Six, the affair was so under wraps that one staffer said the couple has gone above and beyond to hide it. Insiders revealed the ABC staff was “buzzing about the intimacy between them” while they were in England in June for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
"They had no shame going out together and have been publicly doing this for much longer than a month," the source said. "Staffers are very surprised it took this long to come out. Everyone was turning a blind eye because they didn't want the controversy surrounding the show."
Derrick Kittling was killed by a Louisiana deputy over tinted windows.
A Louisiana parish deputy stops a motorist for tinted windows and the situation escalated to the motorist being shot and killed. The cop claims he was reaching for his Taser. Cop claims he "feared for his life."
The usual I killed a man because he resisted and "I feared it was him or me."
The cop is in the freezer and the junk food media covers it.
The far right is trying to justify it as the fault of the motorist and claim that every motorist that ain't white should comply to police. Read it in the comments of most social media platforms and hear the Republicans and police unions say this word vomit.
Tell that to the former president and the Jan. 6 Insurrectionists. Many of these folks have been unrepentant in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
According to the far right: White shooters are mentally ill. Black shooters are unrepentant criminals. Gay shooters are active groomers. Muslim shooters are terrorists. Hispanics and Asians shooters are illegal immigrants. Almost all mass shooters are registered Democrats because they have liked one thing common to the left.
When the person is unarmed, they said well he/she did something to trigger a shooting (i.e. fleeing, reaching, stealing or threatening). White motorists are treated with somewhat less hostility.
Getting away with criminal acts only seem to be white, conservative and often well off.
In Alexandria, Louisiana, Derrick Kittling’s Chevrolet Silverado was pulled over earlier this month. And in 58-seconds, an officer shot the 45-year-old Black father of three in the head.
Kittling was allegedly pulled over for tinted windows and loud engine exhaust.
The deputy did not address that. He completely escalated the stop by giving confusing orders and detaining him without addressing the reason of the pullover.
Deputy clearly escalated the situation.
Louisiana State Police, in coordination with the Rapides Parish District Attorney’s office, provided the first look at multiple videos, including body and dash cam footage, from the Nov. 6 shooting. The update, which included a press conference Sunday as well as a 12-minute video dissecting the footage, also revealed the name of the officer involved—Rapides Parish Deputy Rodney Anderson—and why the routine stop escalated in the first place.
Anderson was in the Alexandria area, which lies outside of the Copseriff’s Office jurisdiction, because of prior reports of individuals “carrying weapons,” according to Davis. The Rapides Parish sheriff requested additional units go to that area to investigate but did not elaborate further.
In the videos, Kittling doesn’t appear to know why he’s being stopped.
“What is wrong with you, why are you grabbing on me, man?” Kittling asks Anderson as the officer grabs him by the wrist.
“Turn around and up your hands behind your back,” the deputy says.
“For what? For what bro?” Kittling asks.
The body cam footage shows Anderson pulling Kittling over and stepping partially out of his patrol car. The dash cam shows Kittling stepping all the way out. Anderson then orders Kittling nine times to step closer to the back of his truck before he makes his way to the rear of the Silverado.
The dashboard video shows Anderson approach Kittling and asking him to face the truck.
“What’s the issue?” Kittling asks twice as the officer grabs his wrist.
“You’re agitated, you’re turning, and you ain’t following directions,” Anderson says.
“I am following directions,” Anderson says. “I don’t hear you. Can I get my phone, sir?”
“We’ll get to that, just turn and face the truck,” Anderson says.
After Anderson asks twice more for Kittling around, Kittling asks why he’s being stopped. Anderson then draws his taser with his right hand and Kittling immediately grabs the deputy’s wrist before the officer’s arm could be fully extended to point the weapon. Holding each other, the two fall to the ground and the taser can be heard going off.
As the two struggle out of sight of the dashboard camera, Kittling can be heard asking, “What’s wrong with you bro?” on the body camera footage.
Kittling’s hand can then be seen grabbing the taser laying next to them, and the taser sounds off once more. The struggle continues for a few more seconds, as bystanders begin filming. From this angle, Kittling can be seen on top of Anderson. The Black man briefly gets to his feet before falling to the ground again in the struggle. Less than two seconds later, the deputy fires his gun. Only one shot can be heard on body camera footage, and police confirmed it struck Kittling in the head.
State police say Anderson called for emergency services, but Kittling succumbed to his injuries after being rushed to the hospital.
State Police confirmed during Sunday’s press conference that Kittling’s family was shown the police video before it was released to the public.
Now his family attorneys demand the record and training behavior of this deputy.
The State Police investigation into the shooting continues, Davis said. Its findings and video footage will be turned over to the Rapides Parish District Attorney’s Office.
There has been no word from State Police or the sheriff’s office about whether Anderson followed proper procedure during the traffic stop. Asked why Anderson was in the Lower Third area, Davis said the sheriff’s office had received reports about people with weapons there.
“I support the release of these videos to ensure the public has a transparent and unbiased account of what occurred,” Rapides Parish Sheriff Mark Wood said, in part, Sunday in a statement. “Today’s release of the videos of the incident has provided context of what occurred. Anytime a serious injury or death is involved, it is a tragedy and families on both sides are impacted forever.”
At a press conference Thursday, Kittling’s family demanded the release of the footage, noting that Kittling was unarmed and that no reason had been provided why the deputy pulled him over. Civil rights attorney Ronald Haley, representing Kittling’s family, repeated the demands at the press conference held on the steps of the Rapides Parish Courthouse.
Kittling is the brother of one of the highest-ranking officers for State Police, Lt. Col. Kenny Van Buren, who was not involved in the troopers’ investigation of the shooting.
A funeral service for Kittling was held Saturday morning. LaNeesha Alexander, his oldest daughter, lamented the loss of her father and their building memories and relationships at Thursday’s event.
“He was the sweetest man ever,’’ Alexander said, wiping back tears. “… Y’all took that from us. Y’all took that from me and my sisters.”
Demand answers to why a deputy escalated a fatal shooting of a motorist.
Every community in the United States will eventually have a legacy. A legacy of tragedy. Gun violence, monkeypox 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. This good guy with a gun nonsense has to end. The cops didn't do nothing when children were shot inside a school. A security guard was shot dead trying to protect shoppers. A cop accidentally shot his own. The good guy who tried to stop a bad guy is outgunned and a part of the rule #3.
Remember #3 means: The "good guy with a gun" better be prepared to die if they want to stop a shooter.
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. We lost over 1 million people from the coronavirus.
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. Thoughts and prayers and your heart going out to the victims is not enough. It quite frankly is an insult. I am also tired of scapegoating Black on Black crime, Chicago, Baltimore and Democratic mayors for the nation's obsession to be numb to gun violence. You pretty much enable this nonsense by deflecting.
President Joe Biden is trying to curb gun violence. However, he has no support from Republicans. Most Democrats and America are for gun control measures. However the two Democrats in the Senate refuse to change the filibuster rules and its holding us back.
The National Rifle Association is always pushing against it. They will not relinquish from the narrative that guns are not saving lives. The Republicans aided by a fickle junk food media are openly encouraging anarchy and disruption in a desperate attempt for the Republicans to win back Congress and the White House. These agitators are calling for Biden to curb crime but will not help him. They want more guns on the street. It makes no sense.
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The call number to the U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official phone number, 202-224-3121. Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES.
The delays are over, the Dems got his tax returns.
The Democrats got one more month before the noise take back control. In the meantime, the committees overseeing accountability will finally get a look at Washed Up 45's taxes.
The former president tried to get the Supreme Court to put a hold on the request. It rejected his request and now the U.S. Treasury has released his taxes to the Democrats.
The Court rejected the emergency request to block the House Ways and Means Committee from obtaining his records, clearing the way for the panel to receive them.
"Treasury has complied with last week's court decision," a spokesperson for the department told Insider on Wednesday. CNN first reported the news.
The department declined to confirm whether the committee had obtained or seen the records yet, and its chairman, Rep. Richard Neal, also did not say. The Massachusetts congressman told reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday that Democrats plan to meet together as a caucus to discuss next moves, though he did not delve further into the matter. A spokesperson for the lawmaker did not immediately return Insider's request for comment.
Neal had first requested the records in April 2019, shortly after Democrats won the House in the 2018 midterm elections. Washed Up 45 had legally challenged releasing his returns over the years, yet the Supreme Court last week ultimately dismissed his bid.
Neal had asked for the former president's personal tax returns and those of his businesses from the Internal Revenue Service as part of an investigation into the agency's auditing process. Washed Up 45 had infamously broke with tradition when he refused to publicly release his tax records during his 2016 campaign and kept them under wraps during his term in office. The former president had defended that he was under audit, though records can still be released then.
It's unclear what House Democrats' plans are for Washed Up 45's records, and whether they will be released publicly. The party has little time, however, to review the returns as Republicans are set to take over the lower chamber on January 3 and don't intend to take up the issue.
Christine McVie passed away from a brief illness. Iconic singer from Fleetwood Mac.
An iconic vocalist and frontwoman for the band Fleetwood Mac died peacefully at the age of 78. It's a tragic day for rock and soul.
Christine McVie has passed away.
Born Christine Anne Perfect on July 12, 1943, the British singer-songwriter is best known for her deep and smoky voice and being responsible for some of Fleetwood Mac’s biggest hits, including “You Make Loving Fun,” “Don’t Stop,” “Say You Love Me,” and “Songbird.”
Her family announced the news on her official Facebook page, saying she died in the hospital on Wednesday morning.
″[W]e would like everyone to keep Christine in their hearts and remember the life of an incredible human being, and revered musician who was loved universally,” the family said in a statement.
Fleetwood Mac also posted to McVie’s Facebook page, saying she was “one-of-a-kind, special, and talented beyond measure."
“A few hours ago I was told that my best friend in the whole world since the first day of 1975, had passed away,” bandmate Stevie Nicks said in a handwritten note posted to Instagram.
She added that one song has been “swirling around” in her head since she found out McVie was sick, quoting the lyrics to HAIM’s “Hallelujah”: “I had a best friend/But she has come to pass.”
She was a key singer and keyboardist for the English-American rock band. She joined the group in 1970 and almost immediately became an iconic vocalist and good friend to the surviving members.
She release three solo albums which had focus on love and relationships. She married John McVie.
Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks.
The McVies moved with band founder Mick Fleetwood to the United States in 1974, where they would soon meet Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, forming the team that would catapult the band to superstardom.
McVie’s “warmth and gravitas balanc[ed] the contributions of her younger new bandmates,” wrote Variety’s Chris Morris, with her sultry voice and skills as a songwriter and keyboardist providing a key foundation for the band’s growth into a “pop music juggernaut.” She wrote several of the songs on the newly reformed Fleetwood Mac’s first album together, the eponymous Fleetwood Mac, including “Say You Love Me” and “Over My Head,” which were both Billboard Top 20 singles.
1977’s smash hit Rumours — which spawned headlines for both its musical genius and the infamous personal turmoil among the band members’ relationships
Fleetwood Mac is an iconic band.
Fleetwood and John McVie were there at the founding of Fleetwood Mac and were the only ones to remain all the way through. McVie departed in the 1990s, when she was seemingly done forever with the rock star life. By 2014, she had changed her mind.
“I just wanted to embrace being in the English countryside and not have to troop around on the road. I moved to Kent, and I loved being able to walk around the streets, nobody knowing who I was,” she said of her hiatus during a 2022 interview with the Guardian.
“Then of course I started to miss it. I called Mick and asked: ‘How would you feel about me coming back to the band?’” she said. “He got in touch with everybody and we had a band meeting over the phone and they all went: ‘Come baaaack!!’ I felt regenerated and I felt like writing again.”
Fleetwood Mac were introduced to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Warner Bros. Discovery is laying the hammer on its franchises. CNN, a product of Turner Media is under the branding. Its new boss Chris Licht has decided to push for company wide lay offs of staff, on air personalities and continuing its hardline stance to keeping news straight forward.
Licht, who took over as chief executive of the network in May, described the cuts in an all-staff memo as a “gut punch” to the organization and told employees that “it is incredibly hard to say goodbye to any one member of the CNN team, much less many.”
Employees at the company had been anxiously bracing for the layoffs since Licht informed them last month that “unsettling” changes lie ahead.
Licht said that on Wednesday the company would notify a “limited number of individuals,” largely paid contributors, that they have been let go. He said the company “will notify impacted employees” on Thursday. Licht said at the conclusion of the cuts he will “follow up with more details.”
“It will be a difficult time for everyone,” Licht candidly said in his memo.
CNN declined to say on Wednesday how many employees precisely would be impacted by the layoffs.
The layoffs come as media companies are being battered by brutal economic headwinds that have taken a bat to the advertising sector. Licht noted in October, when he signaled large cuts were coming, that there is “widespread concern over the global economic outlook” and that CNN “must factor that risk into [its] long-term planning.”
CNN, which still posts profits in the hundreds of millions of dollars, was spared from the cuts that wreaked havoc on the industry during the pandemic. Prior to this year, the last major cuts to occur at the organization were in 2018 when less than 50 people lost their jobs as the company restructured its digital business.
The cuts to the organization also come after CNN’s former parent company, WarnerMedia, merged earlier this year with Discovery, creating a media juggernaut laced with billions of dollars in debt and a need to slash costs across the board. The merger had just been completed in April when the company announced it was shuttering streaming service CNN+ a month after it was launched
David Zaslav, chief executive of Warner Bros. Discovery, the company that was formed when WarnerMedia and Discovery became one, has promised investors that he will find more than $3 billion in savings in the combined organization.
After Licht took over as head of CNN, he conducted a months-long review of the business. That review led to him identifying changes that should be made, Licht said in October. Some of those changes have already been implemented, as CNN has made smaller cuts to parts of its business in the last several months.
Licht said in his all-staff memo on Wednesday that employees affected by this week’s cuts will be notified “through an in-person meeting or via Zoom, depending on your location.”
“In those meetings, you will receive information specific to you about notice period or any severance that would apply, and your anticipated last day,” Licht said. “I want to be clear that everyone who is bonus eligible will still receive their 2022 bonuses, which are determined by company performance.”
Licht acknowledged that the cuts will “affect both our departing colleagues and those who remain” and promised to provide employees “resources designed to support” them.
“Let’s take care of each other this week,” Licht said.
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