The Republicans are still fighting over whether the controversial California lawmaker will be the next House Speaker.
The incoming Minority Leader could end up the House Speaker if the Republicans sink the bid of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
So far, the noise of the far right is trying to equate him to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), two controversial progressive lawmakers who often cause havoc within the Democratic Party.
They claim he is an election denier because he believed that Washed Up 45 was not legitimately elected. The accusations were stemmed from the lawmaker's concerns that the former president then a candidate urging Russia to use information damaging to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and later Joe Biden.
He was one of the managers in the first of two impeachments of Washed Up 45.
None of this sticks.
He is a Black Brooklyn based lawmaker who is moderate. He love hip-hop, walks into a bodega to engage with people and is a person who isn't trying to be noise.
He said that he is team Brooklyn not team genitification, to quote his dig at white leftist Jeffrey Shaun King.
Now, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is working to help Democrats regain the House of Representatives from Republicans. In two years, Republicans will vow to block President Biden's agenda and possibly the Senate Republicans agenda.
House Republicans’ plans to open various investigations into the Biden administration demonstrate that they have learned nothing from their fate in the midterms.
“The fact that my Republican colleagues are contemplating revenge hearings tells you a lot,” Jeffries said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“Instead of being focused on trying to address the problems of the American people — the economy, inflation, dealing with affordability throughout America, issues that we’ve been tackling as House Democrats as we fight for lower costs, better-paying jobs, safer communities — tells you that my Republican colleagues perhaps have not learned any lesson from their historic underperformance in the most recent midterm elections,” Jeffries added.
Republicans are set to gain a narrow majority in the House next month. The party has begun previewing its plans to open investigations into areas like Hunter Biden’s business dealings and the origins of COVID-19.
Congress passed the omnibus bill that keeps the U.S. government open until September. Republican House members balked at it and said that it's war against Biden, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate.
The Jan 6. Panel in its final public meeting on Monday recommended a formal ethics inquiry into House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who is trying to become Speaker in the next Congress, and three other House Republicans who refused subpoenas.
The GOP lawmakers have insisted the committee’s work was a politically motivated witch hunt.
In the new Republican majority, the party may attempt to subpoena House Democrats like outgoing House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA), who said last month on CNN he would have to “consider the validity” of any GOP subpoena.
“In terms of the integrity of their investigations moving forward, that remains to be seen as it relates to the subpoenas and their non-compliance in terms of what the January 6th committee has indicated,” Jeffries said on MSNBC on Tuesday.
The consequences of trying to loving someone to death. Tory Lanez guilty in the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion.
Tory Lanez was found guilty in the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion. He was found guilty of discharging a firearm with gross negligence, assault with a semiautomatic firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle.
Daystar Peterson, 30 and Megan Pete, 27 were dating at some point and the two got into a heated confrontation outside of Kylie Jenner's home. While inside his vehicle, the two got so argumentative, Peterson pulled his unlicensed firearm out and shot into her foot.
Pete, a rapper/singer/model/activist was shot in her right foot and it required medical surgery. Upon release, she immediately singled him out and said it was not an accident.
Megan testified that Lanez shot at her feet five times following a party in the Hollywood Hills on July 12, 2020. She told the court that the shooting was preceded by an argument between Megan and Lanez that got heated, especially when they began attacking each other's music careers.
"I feel like that really rubbed him the wrong way," she said during her testimony, according to The Associated Press. "He kept yelling and cursing."
She got out of the vehicle and tried to walk away when Lanez leaned out and opened fire, she said, leaving the back of her feet wounded. At one point, he yelled "Dance, bitch!" she testified.
She placed a restraining order on him and he violated more than once. He also wrote five songs dissing her which also were going against his restrictions. He also may have struck August Alsina, a R&B singer who refused his handshake. Mind you, Will Smith's career would have improved if he slapped Alsina instead of Chris Rock. Alsina slept with Jada Pinkett Smith and came out as bisexual.
Megan testified that Tory's actions placed her life in danger. She said she could not allow that behavior to go unchallenged.
Tory Lanez can face up to 30 years in the iron college and once out the rapper/singer/media personality will likely be deported back to Canada. He will be ineligible to see his children in the United States. He has one son and allegedly two other children born in the states.
He has a residency in Los Angeles and Atlanta as well as Vaughn, Ontario. He will likely lose his homes due to punitive damages and forfeiture.
During the trial, Megan Thee Stallion said that, despite the shooting, she agreed to get back in the vehicle with Lanez, his bodyguard and a third person because she was wearing a thong bikini and also felt like her manager would know what to do if she was able to get in touch with him, according to CBS Los Angeles.
Tory tried to extort her and many of her former friends to stay silent.
Tory with his son. His son will have to see his dad in the iron college and likely trips to Canada once the U.S. deports the rapper.
Lanez had offered her $1 million to keep quiet about the incident since he was on probation, but a lawyer for Lanez stated that wasn't true.
In an April interview with "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King, Megan Thee Stallion described what led up to the shooting and how she reacted.
"The argument was with the two people in the back seat," she said. "So I asked the driver to pull the car over. Like, I'm done with this. And I should have stayed out of the car. Like, I should have not got back in the car. And they was like, 'Megan, just get back in the car. We're almost there.' And, like, just, 'Get back in.' So I get back in the car. It's... getting worse."
As the argument escalated, Megan Thee Stallion said she got out of the car, and that's when, she told King, that Lanez fired a gun at her several times.
"So I get out of the car and it's like everything happens so fast," Megan Thee Stallion told King. "And all I hear is this man screaming. And he said, 'Dance, bitch!' And he started shooting. And I'm just like, 'Oh, my God.' Like, he shot a couple of times. And I was so scared."
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.
Can't be a victim forever.
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.
Government stays open. In October 2023, Republicans will seek to shut it down if they don't get their way.
Despite the threats from Republicans, the Congress passed the omnibus bill and it will head to President Joe Biden for his signature. It ends the successful years of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). She has ended her term as one of the most effective (and most vilified) lawmakers in history.
Republicans "fired" Pelosi but are ending up firing themselves. Now that she's out of leadership, the Grand Ol' Party needs a new scapegoat for their vilification.
Besides Pelosi, The Republicans have vilified President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Attorney General Merrick Garland, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Duchess Meghan of Sussex, Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
They will focus Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the incoming Minority Leader of the Democratic House.
In the meantime, the far-right members of the Republican Conference are steaming mad over the Congress passing the bill to keep government open. They were upset over earmarks, legislative priorities that served the needs of certain groups and of course the amount.
The bill was worth $1.7 trillion and of course, the bill will give more money to help fund the Ukrainians in their fight to defeat Russia.
Ocasio-Cortez was the sole Democrat to vote against the bill.
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelanskyy came to the U.S. to plea to lawmakers to keep funding them. He said that the Russian invasion has been costly for all but it's been a worthwhile battle to keep Russia from trying to seize control of Eastern Europe.
Mind you Ocasio-Cortez was the sole member who voted against it and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) voted present.
Which means they voted against the Democrats in funding the two controversial lawmakers' minority constituents.
Even the pain in the ass members Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) voted for the bill.
The House on Friday voted to finalize the government funding bill, sending it to President Joe Biden and marking the end of two years of Democrats controlling both chambers of Congress.
McCarthy is crying. He can't face his own party.
The package contains a major boost to military spending and nearly $45 billion in assistance to Ukraine. It overhauls federal election law by revising the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to try to prevent another Jan. 6. The bill funds a swath of domestic programs as well, averting a shutdown and keeping the government funded through next fall.
The vote was 225 to 201, largely along part lines. Nine Republicans voted for the measure, including outgoing Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming; John Katko and Chris Jacobs of New York; Adam Kinzinger and Rodney Davis of Illinois; Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington; and Fred Upton of Michigan.
GOP Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, co-chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus and Congressional Ukraine Caucus, and Steve Womack of Arkansas, a senior appropriator, also supported the measure.
“We have a big bill here, because we have big needs for our country,” outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on the floor. “At the same time — please to put a penny in the old man’s hat — we address the needs of America’s working families, with special focus on our children.”
Rand Paul is a do nothing senator who voted again for funding his Kentucky constituents.
The legislation passed the Senate on Thursday by a vote of 68-29.
Biden has championed the bill. In a statement after its passage, he called it "good for our economy our competitiveness, and our communities" and vowed to sign it into law "as soon as it reaches my desk."
Biden also thanked Senate negotiators "for finding compromise to strengthen our democracy in the face of election denialism and assaults on our bedrock constitutional values."
The measure was negotiated by Democratic leaders and top Senate Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. It revealed a sharp split between Republicans in the two chambers, with House GOP leaders fighting to torpedo it.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., blasted the legislation and the process by which it was crafted, calling it “a slap in the face to every American that voted” to elect a House Republican majority in the 2022 election.
“This is a monstrosity,” he said before the vote, arguing it spends too much. “It is one of the most shameful acts I’ve ever seen.”
“You have done nothing but put politics before the people of America. So you know what? They fired you. They fired you,” he said, claiming that there’s “money for woke-ism” in the bill.
And the rhetoric became more heated. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., a member of the right flank of the GOP caucus, said Democrats were “destroying our country.”
The divisions foreshadow a difficult two years ahead for Republicans as they oversee a paper-thin House majority and face down a Democratic-led Senate and Biden presidency.
The election overhauls in the bill would make abundantly clear that the vice president cannot discount electoral votes, and the measure would raise the threshold to object to counting them from one member of each chamber to one-fifth of each chamber.
Do nothing lawmaker Thomas Massie votes no on every spending bill. Even the funding for five bridges over the Ohio River including the Brent Spence Bridge which is in his fucking Kentucky district.
Democrats wanted a broader package of election and voting laws, but they were constrained by Senate rules that necessitated at least 10 Republican votes to defeat a filibuster.
“It’s a good step,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the Jan. 6 select committee, said in an interview. “I want the abolition of the Electoral College, and I want to repair the Voting Rights Act, and I want criminal penalties for intimidation of election workers. So I think that that would be the strong way to go. But I’m not averse to saying that the vice president can’t run off with the football and declare the loser the winner.”
In an interview, McConnell told NBC News that it was “extremely important” to him to boost military spending above non-defense domestic spending, describing it as essential to combating China.
“We not only needed to help Ukraine, we also needed, within the defense budget, to dramatically increase it so the baseline next year is even bigger,” McConnell, R-Ky., said on Wednesday. “We’ve spent an awful lot of money on domestic priorities over the last few years. Some of them are justified during the pandemic. But the current emergency is not here, it’s over there.”
McConnell also acknowledged his differences on the bill with McCarthy, who is courting votes from the GOP's right wing to become speaker of the House in a few weeks.
“I have a really good relationship with McCarthy, but he’s got a difficult hand to play,” McConnell said. “We all want him to succeed and hope he does.”
Memphis rapper Big Scarr passed away from an overdose.
Rough year for Gucci Mane.
The loss of Takeoff and now Big Scarr.
It appears that he may have died of a drug overdose. The rapper was a survivor of a car accident and a gun shooting incident.
Big Scarr, one of the newest signed acts to Gucci Mane's 1017 Records passed away at the age of 22. The rapper was closely associated with the late Young Dolph. He was supposed to go on tour with Key Glock.
The rapper’s death was confirmed in an Instagram post by Gucci Mane, the rapper and record producer who founded 1017 Records, WHBQ-TV reported. The musician’s cause of death has not been revealed.
“This hurts,” Gucci Mane posted on Instagram. “I’m a miss you.”
Big Scarr, whose real name was Alexander Woods, was born on April 7, 2000, in South Memphis. He reportedly got his nickname after being involved in a near-fatal automobile crash when he was 16, AllMusic reported.
He was known for his debut mixtape “Big Grim Reaper,” which was released in 2021, according to HipHopDX. The project featured notable tracks such as “SolcyBoyz 2″ and “Poppin,” according to music website XXL.
Woods also collaborated with record label colleagues Pooh Shiesty and Foogiano on several tracks, the website reported.
The up-and-coming rapper's uncle, Arthur Woods, tells us Big Scarr overdosed Thursday on prescription pills at his girlfriend's house in Memphis.
Gucci Mane mourns the loss of Big Scarr.
Big Scarr's uncle says he did not know when his nephew got the meds ... but he says Big Scarr faced several traumatic experiences in his life, including being shot and suffering a serious car accident injury.
The rapper got his stage name from the car accident when he was 16. It left a big scar on his body when he was thrown through a windshield. In the 2020 shooting, Big Scarr was struck by a bullet that traveled up his spine, and he needed surgery to remove his appendix.
The uncle says Big Scarr also battled depression ... citing the death of the rapper's grandmother as something that he took very hard.
Thom Bell, the master of Philly Sound passed away in Bellingham, Washington.
Philadelphia soul and jazz lost a legend. It appears that Thom Bell has passed away.
Bell, the Grammy-winning producer, writer and arranger who helped perfect the “Sound of Philadelphia” of the 1970s with the inventive, orchestral settings of such hits as the Spinners’ “I’ll Be Around” and the Stylistics’ “Betcha by Golly, Wow,” has died at age 79.
Bell’s wife, Vanessa Bell, said that he died Thursday at his home in Bellingham, Washington, after a lengthy illness. She declined to give additional details.
A native of Kingston, Jamaica who moved to Philadelphia as a child, Thom Bell drew upon the classical influences of his youth and such favorite composers as Oscar-winner Ennio Morricone in adding a kind of cinematic scale and grandeur to the gospel-styled harmonies of the Spinners, Stylistics, Delfonics and other groups.
Few producer-arrangers compared to Bell in setting a mood — whether the celebratory strings and horns kicking off the Spinners’ “Mighty Love,” the deadly piano roll at the start of the O’Jays’ “Back Stabbers” or the blissful oboe of “Betcha by Golly, Wow,” a soulful dreamland suggesting a Walt Disney film scored by Smokey Robinson.
“Nobody else is in my brain but me, which is why some of the things I think about are crazy — I hear oboes and bassoons and English horns,” he told recordcollectormag.com in 2020.
“An arranger told me ‘Thom Bell, Black people don’t listen to that.’ I said, ‘Why limit yourself to Black people?’ I make music for people.’”
Bell, often collaborating with lyricist Linda Creed, worked on more than 30 gold records from 1968-78 as Philadelphia became as much a center of soul music as Detroit and Motown Records were in the 1960s. He was an independent producer but so vital to the Philadelphia International Records empire built by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff that the publishing company they formed together was called Mighty Three Music.
Bell’s other hits included the Delfonics’ “La-La (Means I Love You),” the Stylistics’ “You Make Me Feel Brand New,” Joe Simon’s “Drowning in the Sea of Love” and Elton John’s “Mama Can’t Buy You Love.”
He is widely credited with reviving the Spinners, a former Motown act that hadn’t had a hit in years. Bell took them on in the early 1970s and helped create such hits as “I’ll Be Around,” “Ghetto Child” and “The Rubberband Man.”
The Spinners’ chart-topping “Then Came You” featured Dionne Warwick, who had been skeptical that the up-tempo ballad would catch on. Bell tore a dollar bill in half and got Warwick to agree that whoever guessed wrong about the song would have to inscribe an apology on their half of the money and send it to the other. Bell would long hold on to the signed note he received from Warwick.
He also worked with some personal favorites, such as an album with Anthony Gourdine of Little Anthony of the Imperials, one of his early influences, and “I’m Coming Home” and “Mathis Is ...” for Johnny Mathis, whom Bell would call the most talented singer he ever worked with, “sterling of sterling.”
A man who made hits for some of the country's notable soul acts.
Bell won a Grammy in 1975 for best producer, but within a few years, the Philadelphia sound had been overtaken by other trends. He had just a handful of hits in the 1980s and after, including Deniece Williams’ “Gonna Take a Miracle” and James Ingram’s “I Don’t Have the Heart.” He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006, and received an honorary Grammy in 2017. Three years later, his work was highlighted in the anthology “Ready or Not: Philly Soul Arrangements & Productions, 1965-1978.”
“To put it in a nutshell, he’s responsible for everything that’s happened to me in my career,” Stylistics lead singer Russell Thompkins Jr. told the Seattle Times in 2018. “He helped me in knowing my vocal range, finding the best way to sing a song. Everyone was his instrument. It didn’t matter if you were a singer, a trombonist or a studio engineer. You were part of his construction.”
One of 10 siblings, Thomas Randolph Bell grew up in a household where both parents were accomplished musicians and only classical works were heard. He was taking piano lessons by age 5 and thought of becoming a conductor, but he could not ignore the sounds he was imagining in his head — high notes keyed to his own tenor — or discovering on the radio, notably Little Anthony and the Imperials’ mournful “Tears On My Pillow.”
“I fell in love with the whole production,” he told the Seattle Times. “I listened to the background, the bass, a lot more than just the lyrics.”
Thanks to such longtime friends as Gamble and Huff, he became well connected in the local music scene. He and Gamble were together briefly in Kenny Gamble & the Romeos, and he also worked as an arranger and session player for the Cameo and Parkway labels, where artists included the Delfonics and Chubby Checker of “The Twist” fame. Gamble and Huff began producing together in 1967, and Bell was soon working with them on songs by Jerry Butler and Dusty Springfield among others.
In the early 1970s, he met Creed, a Philadelphia-born Jew who as a teen fell in love with soul music and with Bell formed a rare interracial musical partnership. Their songs often began with Bell creating a melody and arrangement and Creed providing the words.
For “You Are Everything,” a Stylistics hit which opens with “Today I saw somebody/Who looked just like you/She walked like you do,” inspiration was found during a break from recording.
“We’re walking down the street. We’re looking around, because there’s always something in the street to write about,” Bell told NPR in 2006. “I saw this guy crossing, we were all crossing, and this guy stopped in the middle of the street and he looked back. Then he looked back again. He’s looking at this woman. And he calls out this girl’s name. And he was chasing her, and the girl looked at him like he was crazy. I was watching this, and I said, ‘Creed, I’ve got an idea.’”
Bugzie The Don gets a record deal of five months. MAGA rapper pays the price for supporting Washed Up 45.
The Virginia rapper who posed on a U.S. Capitol Police vehicle smoking a blunt while rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol gets his federal sandwich. The rapper who supported Washed Up 45 went with Forgiato Blow and numerous other MAGA rappers to storm the Capitol in rage of the former president's request for then-Vice President Mike Pence to change the results (which he couldn't legally do).
Antionne Brodnax, known as Bugzie The Don will have some street cred. The first rapper to overthrow democracy. He titled his album, The Capital, while sitting on a U.S. Capitol Police SUV smoking a blunt.
The rapper pled guilty in October to four misdemeanors after rejecting a plea deal. Prosecutors wanted five years due to the fact he has a history in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. The DMV rapper decided to delete the images of the riot from his phone which prosecutors wanted to say that he intentionally destroyed evidence and tried to claim that he wasn't involved in the attack.
Additional footage allegedly busted the Sandston, Virginia native inside the Capitol where he took pictures with statues in the midst of the riots.
Bugzie previously pleaded guilty to four counts in the fall of 2021, including entering a restricted building and illegally protesting in a capitol building.
The Justice Department initially asked for 21 months because of Bugzie’s “extensive criminal history,” noting that he was on probation for a felony conviction when he entered the Capitol. They also said he “attempted to profit from the riot by releasing a rap album that used the attack on the Capitol as a theme.”
In the end, his sentence was lightened, as prosecutors noted in a statement of facts agreed to by Bugzie in his plea deal that he didn’t directly clash with Capitol Police, and was instead “swept along with the group.”
According to WRIC, Bugzie was only inside the building for just over a half hour, and exited through a side door when other rioters started chanting “break it down” in an attempt to breach a police line.
Bugzie previously claimed he was in the D.C. area shooting a music video and decided to show up to the Capitol after noticing the commotion taking place outside before breaching. He also denied being a Washed Up 45 supporter.
Right?
Bugzie The Don is one of more than 400 that have been arrested for their involvement in storming the government headquarters thanks to footage, social media and tips from family members. Sentencing remains ongoing.
This certainly been a dramatic week for a Columbus, Ohio family. The Black woman who kidnapped two 5-month old twins was apprehended in Indianapolis.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
It is a perfect reminder to make sure that you never leave your vehicle running when you are entering a building for even a brief second. It is also important to make sure you take your children and pets out of the vehicle. It is dangerous for children and pets to be left inside a hot and cold vehicle.
The mother was doing a DoorDash for a customer at a local pizza shop when she left her vehicle running with her twin boys inside. Out of nowhere, the terrorist jumping into the vehicle and took off. It was a three day horrific experience.
The Columbus Police face scrutiny after issuing an AMBER Alert three hours after the vehicle was reported missing. The whole issue led to a delay of capture.
Terrorist was spotted in Dayton, Ohio gas station.
The terrorist was spotted in the Dayton suburb of Huber Heights, Ohio at a local gas station begging for money and acting erratically.
Kyair and Kason Thomass were kidnapped and were in great danger.
Kayir was found alive at the Dayton International Airport in a parking lot. It was Kason that had the nation on high alert. There was a dangerous Winter storm and fears that this terrorist would leave the baby alone to die were strongly concerned.
So it took a watchful eye to find Kason. The Indianapolis Metro Police were tipped that the vehicle was spotted near a pizza store.
Amid the search for Kason, Dion Green, who survived a 2019 mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, that claimed the life of his father, established a $10,000 reward for the baby's safe return.
Kason Thomass safe.
"I hope and pray that this baby is found safe and that we can get him back home to his mother," Green said in a Facebook post on Wednesday announcing the reward.
Green was out with his father, Derrick Fudge, in Dayton's Oregon District when a 24-year-old man went on a shooting rampage, killing nine people, including Fudge, and wounding dozens more. In the aftermath of the massacre, Green founded the Fudge Foundation to help individuals impacted directly and indirectly by mass shootings, violence, human trafficking, domestic abuse and other forms of trauma.
"My main concern is the child," Green told ABC affiliate station WSYX in Columbus. "I just want to get the baby and make sure we get him returned back home safely."
Republicans already have a scandal and they've haven't taken charge yet.
Republican-elect is not who he says he is.
Rep-elect George Santos (R-NY) won in a relatively safe Democratic district and it appears he won on the noise of crime, inflation and being against "wokeism." The key elements to winning a Republican primary and eventually a general. Thanks to New York redistricting, Republicans have a five seat gain because of the Democrats trying to be fair. Unlike Ohio, Florida and Texas, the Democratic majority states like Illinois, California and Minnesota have independent commissions. Ohio does but the Republicans decided to go against the voters.
Nonetheless. Santos may have deceived his supporters and the voters.
I am already seeing a train wreck in the making. They complain about the junk food media always picking on them whenever they are held accountable for their actions.
Republicans think they are going to get away with governing.
To the people of #NY03 I have my story to tell and it will be told next week. I want to assure everyone that I will address your questions and that I remain committed to deliver the results I campaigned on; Public safety, Inflation, Education & more.
Santos, who was elected last month to represent parts of Queens and Long Island beginning next year, came under fire earlier this week after a New York Times article alleged that he had fabricated parts of his résumé and biography, including his work history, educational background, business dealings, real estate holdings, and even his purported Jewish heritage.
Some alleged inconsistencies in his financial reports, which appeared to conflict with some parts of his biography, have led Democrats to demand he resign or to call for investigations into whether he violated ethics rules or campaign finance laws.
According to The Daily Beast, the congressman-elect’s deception did not stop there.
The online news website claims that it obtained court records showing Santos was the subject of a previously undisclosed divorce with a woman in Queens.
The uncontested divorce, which went through in September 2019, involved a person named “George A. Devolder Santos” and a woman named Uadla Santos Vieira Santos.
The Daily Beast claims there is only one person in the United States with that name. The news site also found a deed for a $750,000 house purchase in Union County, New Jersey, from this past June. Uadla Santos is listed as the buyer and the only purchaser listed on the property documents, which indicate she is married.
According to The Daily Beast, two weeks after the divorce was finalized, Santos filed the official paperwork to launch his 2020 congressional campaign against then-incumbent Democrat Tom Suozzi.
In that campaign — which saw Santos lose by 10 points — as well as his most recent campaign, Santos has identified himself, in interviews with U.S. and Brazilian media, as a gay man in a relationship with another man, whom he initially identified as his fiancé and whom he now calls his husband. However, The Daily Beast claims it was unable to locate any records listing the two as married.
Additionally, Santos has claimed that his then-fiancé lost his job as a pharmacist after the couple were pictured unmasked at a crowded New Year’s Eve Party at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2020. Santos also appeared to imply, but never directly stated, in a tweet, that the couple had received threats of violence that led them and their four dogs to flee their Long Island home.
A gay Republican may have fabricated his past to win. The New York Times uncovers a pattern of misleading statements and could not verify whether this guy is legitimate in his biography.
The noise makes a claim that Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska went lavish shopping in Paris. Yet there are no photo proof. Russian disinformation is rampant.
As Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke to the U.S. lawmakers and American people, his critics and the Russian government wanted to keep the noise going. They ran a fake story about his wife going on a lavish shopping spree in Paris, France and the noise fell hook line and sinker.
Kind of like the stories you hear about former first lady Michelle Obama, Duchess Meghan and Vice President Kamala Harris. Every time they do something with their own money, the noise believes they're spending taxpayer money on it.
Obama got the most of the attacks. I still grind my teeth whenever that dead asshole Rush Limbaugh used to mock her. He often was ranting off about the trips that she, Malia and Sasha took and complained about how former president Barack Obama was "un-American" and the such.
You see, Michelle Obama is healthy at 58, Barack Obama is healthy at 61 and Rush Limbaugh is dead and gone.
BREAKING: Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukrainian President Zelensky, reportedly spent €40000 on a shopping trip in Paris while visiting the country to plead for more support for Ukraine, store employees have claimed online.
Anyway, Olena Zelenska went on behalf her husband to the European Union. She went to France and was accompanied on the trip to the French capital with Ukrainian officials, including her country's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, in a visit that was aimed at showing the strength of ties between Ukraine and France.
After leaving France, there were chatter about Zelenska spending $40,000 in Paris. Now, some assume that she was using the American military aid to her shopping spree which is bullshit.
On top of that, there's no confirmed sources that proved that she did spend money in the country.
Nonetheless, it got into the social media and throughout the noise of the far-right.
It appears to smell like a disinformation campaign. As Ukraine is urging world powers to join NATO, Russia is amping their offense through social media.
Several Republican lawmakers, far-right media personalities, the Biden accuser and several online trolls are backing the Kremlin's talking points. Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard, Dana Rohrabacher, Max Blumenthal, Tara Reade, Matt Taibbi, Katie Halper, Elon Musk, Candace Owens and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) are known for their support of the Federation.
Raj Moonesighe was shot by the Austin Police while defending his home.
Austin man was shot and killed defending his home. The Austin Police shot and killed 33-year old Rajan (Raj) Moonesighe after he called the law to report the suspicion of an intruder inside his home.
And like Atatiana Jefferson, he was defending his home with a firearm. A theme of those white folks living in Texas, have a gun and a hat. I guess if you're a person of color, having a gun to defend your home is a death sentence. Cops see threat if the person is Black or in this case, South Asian.
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.
Raj was a tech guru who earned a living being a specialist in IT. He moved to a neighborhood in the city that was secure. However, his sense of security was interrupted.
He had went outside with his assualt weapon. In the video footage, Raj is seen with his firearm and pointing it. Austin Police released a Ring camera video that shows Moonesinghe outside his home with his rifle, pointing it at something off-camera and saying, “Are you sure you want this?” before firing the weapon. In the background you see an officer pull up.
According to police, when the officer arrived, he gave Moonesinghe a verbal command to drop the gun before firing his department-approved firearm at Moonesinghe. APD said Moonesinghe was struck and fell to the ground, and the rifle was on the ground at his side.
In the video, you can hear police saying to drop the gun a split second before opening fire and shooting Moonesinghe. In a video shown from the perspective of the officer, just seconds after the officer exits the vehicle, you can hear the sound of gunfire.
After not receiving a response from Moonesinghe after he was shot, officers began life-saving measures, according to police. Within a minute of the shooting, officers were next to him and one could be heard saying “Roll over on your stomach, buddy, so we can help you.” The video police released doesn’t show the life-saving measures.
Austin-Travis County EMS officials arrived at the scene nine minutes later, and Moonesinghe was taken to the hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
The officer who fired his gun, Officer Daniel Sanchez, was placed on administrative leave, APD said. He has two years and nine months of service with APD.
Not even a second a cop shot Raj.
Chris Harris with the Austin Justice Coalition said the video raises a lot of questions.
“Obviously about whom the victim was talking to and engaging with his gun prior to when APD arrived,” said Harris. “Secondly, about whether it was necessary for the officer to immediately open fire with basically no warning or announcement.”
Harris said the video will help in the investigation.
“We deserve access to that footage, particularly when that footage shows officers making life or death decisions,” said Harris.
His brother Johann released a statement calling for a criminal investigation into the matter. How the hell can a two year officer make a one second decision to fire off his service weapon upon seeing an individual?
Was the officer even in danger of being shot?
“Yesterday, I had the opportunity to view the police footage and security footage of the last minutes of my brother’s life. As difficult as that was, it was an incredibly important step towards finding out the truth of the events leading up to his murder by police on November 15, 2022. The video clearly shows that Raj never threatened the officers, he didn’t even know they were there. I’d encourage everyone to watch the videos being released today to make their own judgments. Thank goodness Raj had his Ring security camera on his porch because, without it, the police would have continued to lie about what happened that night.
“After watching the video, it is evident that the officer who shot Raj did this without identifying himself, without thinking, and before giving my brother a chance to explain who he was and why he was outside. Instead, he arrived without flashing lights or sirens, pulled out an assault rifle, took a hidden defensive position behind a fence 25 yards away, and killed my brother. He began firing before finishing his command to ‘drop your gun’ and continued to fire once Raj had dropped his gun and put his hands up and continued to fire once Raj had dropped his gun and put his hands up. It’s clear from the security footage that Raj didn’t even know the police officer was there. His last words as he lay on the ground were ‘it wasn’t me.’
“Instead of getting justice for Raj, the Austin Police Department continues with its attempts to cover up what happened. The security footage they released today is an edited version that intentionally removes the interaction that Raj had with his neighbor one minute beforehand where he told her there was someone in his house and yelled into his home, ‘I’m calling the police, get out of my house.’
“It is beyond comprehension that the police acted this way. The police knew he was the homeowner concerned with a potential intruder. They shot first and asked questions later. As an Austinite myself, I’m outraged to think that these are the people tasked with protecting our community.
Raj was a loving son who took care of our parents financially and the co-founder of a very successful tech company which we moved to Austin in 2018. We ask the City and the District Attorney to do their jobs and hold the officer accountable. Otherwise, these senseless shootings will continue and more innocent people will be shot and killed by Austin police officers.”
APD said after the shooting, officers could see inside the home through the open front door. An officer gave verbal commands to check for anyone who may have been hurt or inside the home. Officers also checked the home but didn’t find anyone inside.
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.
Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or 988, 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.
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.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to America on Ukraine's fight for survival.
A former comedian turned politician now is a war time leader of a country of the former Soviet Union.
The president is urging world leaders to stand firm against the Kremlin's offensive attack on his country.
The President of Ukraine came to the United States for a Joint Session of Congress. He met with President Joe Biden, spoke in the presence of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) , Vice President Kamala Harris and the lawmakers.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells Congress that there's a turning point to the fight against Russia. The Federation president Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine and targeted eastern oblasts and the country's capital of Kyiv.
Biden has promised the Ukrainian president that the country will abide in its fight by supplying weapons but vowed to stay out the matter. If the U.S. and NATO interfere, it will lead to World War III.
So far, Ukraine has taken back land only for the Russians to use more aggressive tactics.
Putin is hinting nuclear offense.
Zelenskyy addressed Congress as lawmakers are set to vote on $45 billion more in emergency aid as part of a larger spending package. Biden on Wednesday also announced the U.S. will send Ukraine a Patriot anti-missile battery to defend against devastating Russian attacks.
In a virtual address to U.S. lawmakers back in March, Zelenskyy emotionally pleaded for more aggressive measures to help fight the war. Invoking key American tragedies, including Pearl Harbor and the Sept. 11 attacks, Zelenskyy told members at the time, "Just remember it … Our country experiences the same every day right now."
California Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the likely next House speaker, stood and clapped along with other lawmakers at nearly every interval.
Some other Republicans, including Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio), Andrew Clyde (Georgia), Matt Gaetz (Florida) and Lauren Boebert (Colorado), stood for less than half of the ovations but were seen repeatedly clapping as well.
Gaetz appeared to be on his phone through the speech. At one point he showed Boebert something with a smile
Gaetz has been critical of future Ukrainian aid while McCarthy has called for Republicans to ensure accountability on how it is used.
Picture this... had Benjamin Netanyahu showed up, the Republicans would hand him a blank check. But for Zelenskyy, had he gave in to Washed Up 45's illegal demand to investigate Biden for military aid, the Republicans wouldn't be like this.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) shuts the door on a government shutdown proposed by Republicans in the House. He and probably nine members of the Senate will pass the omnibus bill to keep the federal government open until September 2023.
The Minority Leader is not wasting time arguing with Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the embattled lawmaker who wants to Speaker of the House.
A group of 13 current and incoming House Republicans has threatened to oppose the legislative priorities next year of any senators who vote for the bill, including McConnell.
And the next likely speaker of the House, McCarthy tweeted Tuesday that he agreed with them.
“When I’m Speaker, their bills will be dead on arrival in the House if this nearly $2T monstrosity is allowed to move forward over our objections and the will of the American people,” McCarthy tweeted.
McConnell said the GOP’s negotiations were successful in the end. He framed the longer-term spending bill as a victory for the GOP, even as many Republicans will undoubtedly vote against it. He said Republicans succeeded in increasing defense spending far beyond Biden’s request while scaling back some of the increase Biden wanted for domestic spending.
“We’ve transferred huge sums of money away from Democrats’ spending wish list toward our national defense and armed forces, but without allowing the overall cost of the package to go higher,” McConnell said.
Congressional leaders unveiled a government-wide $1.7 trillion spending package early Tuesday that includes another large round of aid to Ukraine, a nearly 10% boost in defense spending and roughly $40 billion in emergency spending, mostly to assist communities across the country recovering from drought, hurricanes and other natural disasters.
The bill, which runs for 4,155 pages, includes about $772.5 billion for non-defense, discretionary programs and $858 billion for defense and would last through the end of the fiscal year at the end of September.
Lawmakers worked to stuff as many priorities as they could into the sprawling package, likely the last major bill of the current Congress. They are racing to complete passage before a midnight Friday deadline or face the prospect of a partial government shutdown going into the Christmas holiday.
Lawmakers leading the negotiations released the details of the bill shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday.
The spending package includes about $45 billion in emergency assistance to Ukraine. It would be the biggest American infusion of assistance yet to Ukraine, above even President Joe Biden’s $37 billion emergency request, and ensure that funding flows to the war effort for months to come.
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