American Solider Detained In North Korea!

Enter the Demilitarized Zone.

Why do Americans refuse to follow the U.S. State Department travel advisories?

Why do some U.S. soldiers fail to follow protocol when it comes to dealing with foreign customs?

Looks like President Joe Biden is forced into an international crisis. An American soldier is arrested in the People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) after crossing the border illegally.

Now the North Koreans will use this solider as a bargaining chip to get sanctions relieved and use this solider for propaganda.

Fox and the Republicans will accuse Biden of not doing enough or conceding too much.

If the solider is white, expect it to be wall to wall coverage and calls of the person being hailed a hero. If the solider is a person of color, expect the rounds of criticism, allegations of treachery and blame of Biden policies for the solider's capture.

The solider, Travis King was arrested.

The person was taking part in a tour to the Joint Security Area on the demilitarised zone (DMZ) border separating the two Koreas since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War where soldiers from both sides stand guard.

South Korea's Dong-a Ilbo daily, citing South Korea's army, identified the person as Travis King, a U.S. army soldier with the rank of private second class. The newspaper later deleted the name.

Reuters could not immediately establish the identity of the person.

"A U.S. National on a JSA orientation tour crossed, without authorization, the Military Demarcation Line into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)," the U.N. Command (UNC) said on Twitter.

"We believe he is currently in DPRK custody and are working with our KPA counterparts to resolve this incident," it added, referring to North Korea's People's Army.

The man was with a group of visitors, including civilians, to the Panmunjom truce village when he suddenly bolted over the brick line marking the border, Donga and the Chosun Ilbo daily newspapers reported, citing South Korean army sources.

Colonel Isaac Taylor, spokesperson for the U.S. military in South Korea (USFK) and the U.N. Command, declined to confirm whether the individual was a U.S. Army soldier or a member of USFK, saying he had nothing to add to the UNC statement.

"We're still doing some research into this, and everything that happened," he told Reuters.

The White House, the U.S. State Department and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The crossing comes at a sensitive time amid high tensions on the Korean peninsula, with the arrival of a U.S. nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine in South Korea for a rare visit in a warning to North Korea over its own military activities.

North Korea has been testing increasingly powerful missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, including a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launched last week.

South Korea's Defence Ministry said it did not immediately have any information on the border incident.

U.S. State Department travel advisory bans U.S. nationals from entering North Korea "due to the continuing serious risk of arrest and long term detention of U.S. nationals."

The ban was implemented after U.S. college student Otto Warmbier was detained by North Korean authorities while on a tour of the country in 2015. He died in 2017, days after he was released from North Korea and returned to the United States in a coma.

Reporting by Hyonhee Shin, Soo-hyang Choi, Ju-min Park and Josh Smith; Writing by Jack Kim, Editing by Andrew Heavens and Tomasz Janowski.

For Example!

Uh oh.

Washed Up 45 announced that he has gotten a target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith in regards to his participation of the Jan. 6 insurrection. The former president who couldn't be charge while in office is complaining he is expect to be charged now that he is no longer president but is running for president.

I got a headache.

Thanks to the former president, Smith and his team have U.S. Marshal protection. The former president may face a gag order if the federal courts deem his rhetoric out of bounds.

No one is above the law. Let me be clear, if it was average Joe, they would certainly be indicted by the federal government.

The frontrunner for the Republican nomination is criminally indicted by the federal government, the state of New York and soon the state of Georgia. He is under investigation in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin for having those fake electors.

“Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, sent a letter (again, it was Sunday night!) stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and indictment,” Washed Up 45 posted on his Truth Social account.

The former president said that this effectively means that he will be indicted for a third time. Washed Up 45 added that he's "Joe Biden’s NUMBER ONE POLITICAL OPPONENT, who is largely dominating him in the race for the Presidency."

It was not immediately clear what the charges are or whether anyone else received a target letter.

The former president said his lawyers gave him the letter, which he called "HORRIFYING NEWS for our Country," on Sunday night while he was with his family after attending a Turning Point event in West Palm Beach, FL.

"Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before, or even close," Washed Up 45 wrote in his lengthy statement.

Smith, appointed as special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November, has led a sprawling investigation in the almost eight months since. Smith secured an indictment before a Florida grand jury last month, charging the former president with 37 counts in connection with his handling of classified documents and alleged efforts to obstruct that investigation.

No time for noise.

The charges in that case include making false statements, conspiracy to obstruct justice and willful retention of national defense information, related to the more than 100 classified documents that were recovered from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida last year, according to the indictment. Washed Up 45pleaded not guilty and has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

A possible indictment charging the former president in the Jan. 6 probe comes after a House select committee, created by Democrats when they held the majority control of the chamber last year, investigated the former president's role in the riot.

Days after the attack, the House impeached the former president — for the second time — for "incitement of insurrection." The Senate later acquitted him because Democrats fell 10 votes short in securing enough Republican votes to join them.

Washed Up 45 faces several other investigations. He was separately charged in early April by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to his role in hush money payments toward the end of his 2016 presidential campaign. He pleaded not guilty. He also faces a criminal investigation in Georgia related to the 2020 election.

Pramila Jayapal Faces Heat From Pro-Israeli Dems!

Women of color. Rashida Tlaib, Pramila Jayapal and Ilhan Omar criticize the Israeli government and often face backlash from their own party.

The internal fights between the progressive and moderate Democrats continue.

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH), Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA), Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) and other Democrats turn a blind eye to the unlawful actions of Israel.

Anytime a person of color, a Muslim or a progressive criticizes Israel, it earns outrage from not only the far right but the Democratic Party itself. Republicans often use Israel in their Christian fascist ideology. Democrats use Israel as a wedge to keep Jewish support.

Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal attempts to appease so-called "Free Palestine" protesters after they hijacked a leftist conference: "We have been fighting to make it clear that Israel is a racist state!"pic.twitter.com/9p2aX6uh4F

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 15, 2023

Israel has been criticized for issues regarding the conduct of its armed forces in the Arab–Israeli conflict, establishment and expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, its treatment of Palestinians, and the blockade of the Gaza Strip, with its impact on the economy of the Palestinian territories, the country's nuclear weapons program, and its targeted killings program. Other criticized long-standing issues include: the refusal to allow post-war Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, and the prolonged occupation of territories gained in war and the construction of settlements therein. Israel's status as a representative democracy has also been questioned because Israeli residents of the occupied territories are allowed to vote in Israel's elections while Palestinian residents are not.

Criticisms of Israeli policies come from several groups: primarily from activists, within Israel and worldwide, the United Nations and other non-governmental organizations including European churches, and mass media. Media bias is often claimed by both sides of the debate. Since 2003, the UN has issued 232 resolutions with respect to Israel, 40% of all resolutions issued by the UN over the period and more than six times that of the second placed country, Sudan.

Countercriticisms include the assertion that some critics and their criticisms are aimed at delegitimizing Israel's right to exist, which has led some to debate over the point at which criticism of Israel crosses the line into antisemitism. The term "new anti-Semitism" refers to criticisms deemed to have crossed this threshold.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Andre Carson (R-IN) opposes funding to Israel's military defense.

Omar and Tlaib are the most vocal. They call Israel an apartheid state due to its actions in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. They were banned from entry into Israel. Tlaib has family living in the West Bank.

The Republicans are openly hostile to Muslim Americans. Democrats are "allies" only when it comes to Muslims staying silent on Israel. They can criticize China, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Somalia, Algeria and Yemen.

Only Israel is what drives their outrage. 

Jayapal said Israel is a racist country. That is a fact. But it was quickly shot down by top Dem leadership and they ordered her to walk back her remarks.

She made them at the Netroots Nation political action conference. 

Israel is not a Jewish state. It is a unitary state with a republican form of government in which the political power is vested in and entrusted to the parliament with confidence by its electorate. 

They have elected leaders and a functioning government. If it was a Jewish state, then it would be fascism. Because it would ban other religions and punish those who stand up to the authority.

Israel has been under fire for committing war crimes in the West Bank, Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The country has continued building settlements in the West Bank despite the warnings it would flare tension. 

Those living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are being stripped of resources. Those living in the West Bank are banned from traveling on roads built to the settlements. 

For the people of the Gaza Strip, they have no resources or the military to defend itself.

Since 2005, Israel has a blockade for aid to the Gaza Strip. 

Those who tried to bring aid into the Gaza Strip are stopped or shot.

The Palestinians have no military. Israel does and it has proven to be extremely brutal in its attacks.

Israel is a neo-fascist country. They are masquerading as a legitimate democracy when its prime minister and his far right coalition are trying to eliminate the federal courts, outlaw integration, outlaw non white Jews, non white immigrants, make it a religious theocracy and brutally eliminate the other. They are trying to destroy democracy and wipe out the Palestinians who live in Gaza Strip, West Bank, East Jerusalem and Golan Heights.

The U.S. funds its defense operations and they use it in a brutal almost criminal assault on those living in Palestine. The Palestinians have no military equipment or the technology. Whenever Israel strikes, they hit residential and urban centers. They claim they are killing "militants" and those who were injured are used as shields. Israel claims the world hates them and they must defend themselves.

The Republicans and some Democrats have this notion that criticism of the state of Israel is equal to anti-Semitism. They seriously call for boycotts and censorship of those who dare speak against the inhumane crimes done by the Israeli government. 

Girl Survives Acid Attack In Detroit!

Take caution: Disturbing images!

Deaira Summers is lucky to be alive today. The 11 year old girl survived an acid attack by a 12 year old girl in Detroit, Michigan. Now the Wayne County Prosecutor is going to charge the girl and her mother with attempted murder with intentions of great harm.

In a news release obtained by WJBK, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has charged the 12-year-old girl with a count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and a count of felonious assault.

“This is an extremely troubling set of allegations,” said Prosecutor Kym Worthy, according to the news outlet. “Instant horrible decision-making can have lifelong effects on others. There is no excuse for this.”

The attack happened last Sunday, July 9, according to WWJ-TV. It happened on a playground near Vernor Elementary School in Detroit, WDIV reported.

The incident happened with some kind of altercation on the playground. WDIV reported that Summers said she was not involved in the argument. Her family said that the 12-year-old girl’s mother handed her a bottle that was filled with some kind of liquid. The girl then reportedly threw the liquid toward Summers, her cousins, and her siblings. Summers sustained burns to her legs, back, and arms. Following the attack, Summers ran back to her house.

Summers spent three days at a children’s hospital for treatment for severe burns, WDIV reported.

A preliminary hearing was held Saturday where she was given a bond with a tether that was ordered, the news outlet reported. The 12-year-old was ordered to have no contact with Summers or any of the witnesses.

The 12-year-old girl is expected back in court on July 18, WJBK reported.

It is not yet clear if she will be charged as a juvenile or adult. No information has been released if anyone else will be facing any charges. The type of acid that was used in the attack has not been released.

The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

A GoFundMe account was established for treatment of Dearia. The young girl will face post-traumatic stress, depression, life altering injuries and surgeries.

The Insufferable Groupie!

Greene appears in Proud Boy rap video.

Again, does the constituents of Georgia's 14th Congressional District want this person to serve their interests? 

She barely does her job as a lawmaker and has spent less than 15% of her time in the district.

She and boyfriend Brian Glenn moved to the McLemore Golf Resort and Club in Rising Fawn to keep her district seat. She was facing a disqualification due to her being outside the district, her support for the insurrection and the peddling of noise.

She opens herself for an ethics investigation with the House of Representatives.

On top of that, it makes it apparently clear that she has no interest in doing anything for those living in Northwest Georgia.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is the most laziest member of the House of Representatives. She is also the most visible member who is openly promoting white nationalism and conspiracy theories. She is a die hard supporter of Washed Up 45.

So die hard she would travel to West Palm Beach for Turning Point USA's conference on how to win 2024 with culture wars and violence.

Greene even had an opportunity to appear in a music video with MAGA rapper Forgiato Blow (aka Vanilla Lice). The rapper calls himself the Mayor of Magaville. He is a Florida based entertainer who associates with the Proud Boys. 

Blow born Kurt Jantz, 38 he is the grandson of Auto-Trader founder Stuart Arnold.

He advocated for Washed Up 45 to pardon controversial rapper Kodak Black and new Floridian Lil Wayne.

Kodak Black and Lil Wayne have lost support and their album sales slumped since their endorsement of Washed Up 45.

Greene has recently got into a slew of controversial issues. She was apparently booted from the House Freedumb Caucasians over her remarks at fellow insufferable member Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO). 

Greene gave Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) a headache when she rant on about impeaching President Joe Biden and vowing to cut military aid to Ukraine.

Greene and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) (whom appeared in Forigato Blow's videos) tried to bring Russian operative Tara Reade into Congress to testify her allegations of sexual assault by Biden.

Greene has become a part of the very thing she hates: the establishment.

Carlee Russell Found!

Carlee Russell found safe.

Carlee Russell was found safe. The FBI and Alabama authorities have not determined what had happened but the woman who went missing on Thursday was returned to her home. She is currently at a Birmingham hospital being evaluated.

Russell showed up at the home in Hoover, Alabama that she shared with her parents at around 10:45 p.m. Saturday.

"She walked up, banged on the door, and that was her," Hoover Police Chief Nicholas Derzis told the station.

Officials have not released any details about where Russell was, how she got back home, or her condition.

"We work with facts," Chief Derzis said. "With social media, you got so many people that think they know what’s taken place. Right now, we’re just very pleased that she’s home."

The search began for Russell on Thursday night. That night, she called 911 and then spoke to a family member, saying that she saw a young child walking on the side of Interstate 459 South near Mile Market 11 in Hoover, Alabama.  

Carlee's mother Talitha Russell said her daughter was on the phone with a family member when she pulled over to check on the child.  

"My daughter-in-law could hear her ask if the child was OK, and the child didn't respond - at least she didn't hear her respond," Russell said. "Then she heard our daughter Carlee scream."

While the family lost contact with Carlee Russell, the line remained open.

When officers arrived at the location, they found Russell's red Mercedes still running by the interstate, but they were unable to find her or a child in the area.

"Her car door was open," Talitha Russell said. "They have found her wig and her hat, and her cell phone."

The phone is now undergoing a forensic examination to see if there are any clues to help them find Carlee. Investigators say no children had been reported missing in the area.

Police say a witness reported seeing a man standing beside Russell’s vehicle just before officers arrived at the scene.

"A single witness has reported possibly seeing a gray vehicle with a light-complexioned male standing outside Carlee's vehicle," Hoover Police Lt. Daniel Lowe said at a press conference.

The leads are still open and the law will talk to Russell. Hopefully, we will get some answers to how she disappeared.

Thanks to Black Twitter, Carlee got national attention.

Missing white women syndrome, a phrase coined by Gwen Ifill is described as a sensational media coverage of a white woman going missing. The junk food media obsesses over the coverage. The it forces Republicans to draft bills that push draconian punishments. 

I am having some red flags to this but I will not address them until we get a detailed answer from law enforcement.

Find Carlee Russell!

Carlee Russell was reported missing after phoning 911 after spotting a toddler on the freeway.

In the latest controversy surrounding Missing White Women Syndrome, Black Twitter is generating buzz about a missing Alabama woman who may have been abducted after she tried to be a good samaritan.

Had the woman been a white woman living in Mobile, Huntsville or well off, the junk food media would be covering this obsessively. They will be dramatizing events of a suspect, have wall-to-wall coverage and draft draconian laws to ensure harsher punishments for offenders.

While in Hoover, Alabama, Carlee Russell was traveling on Interstate 459, a bypass freeway in suburban Birmingham, she saw a child walking on the freeway. 

After stopping and realizing this was a toddler, she called 911 and her family. 

While on the phone with her family, Carlee was soon interrupted by something and thus silence.

The Hoover Police Department said 25-year-old Carlethia "Carlee" Nichole Russell made a 911 call on Wednesday to report that she saw a toddler walking on the side of Interstate 459 in Alabama at around 9:30 p.m.

Russell then stopped her car to check on the toddler and called a family member to report what she saw. The family member lost contact with Russell, but the line remained open, according to police.

About 50,000 vehicles travel on Interstate 459 in Birmingham.

Police who responded to her 911 call found the Russell's vehicle and some of her belongings at the scene when they arrived. But, they were unable to find her or a child in the area.

Police said they have not received any additional calls of someone missing a small child.

Police said a single witness reported seeing a grey vehicle and a man standing outside Russell's car, but police have no further information about that person or the vehicle.

Russell was wearing a black shirt, black pants and white Nike shoes, according to police.

An anonymous donor is offering $20,000 for the safe return of Russell and Crimestoppers of Metro Alabama are offering an additional $5,000.

"We are leaving nothing off the table and no stone unturned in investigating some of these facts," Hoover Police Department Lieutenant Daniel Lowe said at a press conference.

New York Nabs Serial Killer!

The well established sexual predator. This privileged white man is accused of murdering four women in Long Island. Allegedly he killed 14 more.

The disappearance and murders of 11 women, most who worked on the stroll was big news in the state of New York. The cases remained unsolved until now. Some of the victims were men and one was a small child.

Even actor Billy Baldwin said he was shocked. He is the younger brother of Alec Baldwin.

He said was mind-boggling that a man he went to high school with turned out to be a serial killer and sexual predator. 

Woke up this morning to learn that the Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect was my high school classmate Rex Heuermann.

Berner High School
Massapequa, New York
Class of 1981

Married, two kids, architect.
“Average guy… quiet, family man.”
Mind-boggling… Massapequa is in shock.… pic.twitter.com/Tms0IWVazN

— Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) July 14, 2023

The state announced the arrest of a 59-year old white predator.

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

More than a decade after 11 bodies were found on Long Island and a year after he came onto officials' radar as a potential suspect, a New York architect was charged in the Gilgo Beach murders, a series of killings of mostly young women.

"Rex Heuermann is a demon that walks amongst us, a predator that ruined families,” Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said Friday after the suspect pleaded not guilty to three first-degree murder charges.

Heuermann, 59, was arrested Thursday evening at his Manhattan office and arraigned Friday in the deaths of three women. He is also suspected in the disappearance and death of a fourth woman, officials said.

The grisly discoveries were made after a sex worker went missing in 2010. As officials searched for that woman, they discovered the remains of 11 other people.

During a news conference Friday afternoon, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney, who was joined by members of the victims’ families, said solving the cases has been a priority for him and area law enforcement since he took office in January 2022.

Heuermann came to be known to a Gilgo Beach task force in March 2022, Tierney said. From there, a secret grand jury was utilized to secure more than 300 subpoenas and search warrants.

“We were playing before a party of one because we knew the person responsible for these murders would be looking at us," Tierney said. "So we were very careful how we handled the investigation. We maintained the integrity of the investigation. Most importantly of all, we maintain the secrecy of that investigation.”

RFK Jr. Claims The Chinese Invented COVID To Save The Jews!

They still running this fool.

Let me make this clear: Criticism of Israel, the treatment of the Palestinians, the campaign to peddle influence in the United States and its leaders is not anti-semitic.

Claims that events happening in the world being the faults of greedy Jews is anti-semitic.

I do not have any hatred of religions. I am not a practicing religious person. I don't claim to be Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Satanist or any religion.

Conspiracy theorist and Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was caught on camera making outlandish remarks about the origins of the coronavirus and equating troupes.

Absolutely disgusting and insane. The @nypost obtained video from a recent RFK Jr. event where he suggested COVID is a Chinese bioweapon “ethnically targeted” to “attack Caucasians and Black people” and to spare “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” people. He then falsely claimed the… pic.twitter.com/reTqaEc1aL

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) July 15, 2023

Kennedy is the son of the late U.S. senator and Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy.

His father was assassinated in 1968 while campaigning in California. His uncle was John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. His uncle was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. His other uncle, Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts senator ran in the 1980 Democratic primary against the 39th President Jimmy Carter.

RFK, Jr. is an environmental advocate, conspiracy theorist and far right lunatic.

Kennedy claimed that the coronavirus was specifically invented to target Blacks and Whites.

“COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy said. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

“We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact,” Kennedy hedged.

“We do know that the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons and we are developing ethnic bioweapons,” he claimed. “They’re collecting Russian DNA. They’re collecting Chinese DNA so we can target people by race.”

Despite Kennedy’s claims that Ashkenazi Jews had a higher immunity to COVID-19, in June of 2020, the Office for National Statistics released data revealing Jews had a higher mortality rate from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom compared to other ethnic groups. At the peak of the pandemic, in April 2020, Jewish mortality from COVID-19 was twice that of non-Jews. 

Kennedy went on to claim that a future pandemic could be expected with a “50% infection fatality rate” that would make COVID-19 “look like a walk in the park.”

The coronavirus pandemic started in late 2019. Washed Up 45 stopped the White House Pandemic Response Team once Barack Obama left the White House. The coronavirus officially made it to the United States in December and slowly creeped from coast to coast

Washed Up 45 declared the U.S. was in a pandemic in March 2020. 

He quickly declared the pandemic over despite thousands of Americans dying.

Kennedy and Moms for Liberty praised the former president for easing restrictions.

Kennedy complained about the U.S. offering cluster ammunition to the Ukrainian government to fend off Russia. The far left believe it is a proxy war and the far right believe that Ukraine should cede land to Russia and end its funding. 

The Strike That Hurts The Entertainment Industry!

It's on now.

It is big..... really, really big!

Not since 1960, the U.S. entertainment industry went on strike. 

The Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild of America-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists are both on strike after talks with the studio executives failed.

This affects television, radio, music and podcasts. This affects millions.

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Congress have not reacted to this.

Assuming how the Republicans act, they are willing to call the entertainers and writers hypocrites because they work for Hollywood, Broadway and Silicon Valley. They ignore that these people work hard to make your favorite sitcoms, favorite game show, favorite radio program, favorite talk show, favorite late night program, favorite animation, favorite dramas and every motion picture.

Paramount Global, NBCUniversal, Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Apple and Warner Bros. Discovery are refusing to negotiate with the unions. The strike is voted upon after talks failed.

The unions are asking for fair wages, more pay due to streaming, artificial intelligence and syndication rights.

Usual film sites like Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta and Austin have seen shutdowns of filming.

Promotion of films, television programs and events are no longer available.

Actors are not promoting upcoming movies like Barbie and Oppenheimer.

Fran Drescher, current president of WGA-AFTRA has slammed network executives. The executives are claiming the networks are losing money. However, they are taking nine figure salaries. Some are actually taking joy in watching the actors, writers and costume makers suffer.

Drescher said actors were being “marginalised, disrespected and dishonored” by a business model that has been drastically changed by streaming and artificial intelligence.

“What happens here is important because what’s happening to us is happening across all fields of labor, when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run,” she said.

“We are the victims here. We are being victimized by a very greedy entity. I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us.

“I cannot believe it, quite frankly, how far apart we are on so many things. How they plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting. Shame on them. They stand on the wrong side of history.”

Eli Crane: Whether "Colored People" Or Black People Or Anybody!

They had to vote assholes to Congress.

The list of insufferable lawmakers grows. 

Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), a former Navy SEAL and businessman won his congressional seat in 2022.

He is a freshman Republican lawmaker representing parts of Tucson, Phoenix, almost all of Northern Arizona which includes the reservations as well as Flagstaff.

He is 43 years old.

Before he became a lawmaker, he was the Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush type. All bullshit and no cattle.

He is the asshole type of veterans. He thinks his shit don't stank. I smell alcohol, cocaine and adultery.

Prove me wrong.

Crane referred to Black people as "colored people" on Thursday during floor debate over his proposed amendment to an annual defense policy bill, prompting a stern rebuke from the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.

“My amendment has nothing to do with whether or not colored people or Black people or anybody can serve,” the first-term Republican said. “It has nothing to do with any of that stuff.”

The remark came as lawmakers were debating a series of GOP-backed amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, which the House is aiming to pass by the end of the week.

Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), a former Navy SEAL, reality TV personality and far right blogger said on the House floor that the military should matter on whether "colored people" served.

Crane said his amendment would prohibit the Defense Department from considering race, gender, religion, political affiliations or "any other ideological concepts" as the sole basis for recruitment training, education, promotion, or retention decisions.

"The military was never intended to be, you know, inclusive. Its strength is not its diversity. Its strength is its standards," said Crane, a 43-year-old combat veteran.

"I’m going to tell you guys this right now you can, you can keep playing around these games with diversity, equity and inclusion. But there are some real threats out there. And if we keep messing around, and we keep lowering our standards it’s not going to be good," he added.

Immediately after Crane finished his remarks, Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) asked that the derogatory phrase he used be stricken from the record.

“I find it offensive and very inappropriate,” said Beatty, who was the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus in the previous Congress. “I am asking for unanimous consent to take down the words of referring to me or any of my colleagues as colored people.”

Crane interjected with a request to amend his comments to "people of color." Beatty insisted, however, that the words be stricken from the record. They were removed by unanimous consent.

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) and Columbus, Ohio mayor Andrew Ginther great First Lady Jill Biden.

Asked for comment about his choice of words, Crane said he “misspoke.”

“In a heated floor debate on my amendment that would prohibit discrimination on the color of one’s skin in the Armed Forces, I misspoke,” Crane said in a statement. “Every one of us is made in the image of God and created equal.”

Beatty, 73, had criticized Crane's amendment as trying to "undermine the freedoms for us to learn about one another, for us to hire one another, for us to understand our cultures."

The House adopted Crane's amendment Thursday night in a 214-210 vote.

In the Senate this week, Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., refused to acknowledge that white nationalism is fundamentally racist.

Asked to clarify comments he made in May that appeared to defend white nationalists’ serving in the military, Tuberville insisted in an interview Monday night on CNN that not all white nationalists are racists. He instead suggested that they are simply people “that have a few, probably different beliefs.”

Larry Nassar Got Air Holes!

Larry Nassar got stabbed.

While serving his lifetime in federal time out, convicted sexual predator Larry Nassar was stabbed by a inmate. The inmate was previously a resident of Supermax Florence.

The attacker will likely return to the facility.

Investigators probing disgraced former sports doctor Larry Nassar’s stabbing Sunday at a federal penitentiary in Florida are lacking a key piece of evidence: video of the assault.

Nassar was attacked inside his cell, a blind spot for prison surveillance cameras that only record common areas and corridors, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. In federal prison parlance, because of the lack of video, it is known as an “unwitnessed event.”

The inmate, identified as Shane McMillan, was previously convicted of assaulting a correctional officer at a federal penitentiary in Louisiana in 2006 and attempting to stab another inmate to death at the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado in 2011, court records show.

McMillan attacked Nassar in his cell.

It’s the second time Nassar, the former U.S. women’s gymnastics team doctor, has been assaulted in federal custody while he’s serving decades in prison for sexually abusing athletes and possessing explicit images of children.

The attack, which left Nassar hospitalized in stable condition with injuries including a collapsed lung, underscored persistent problems at the federal Bureau of Prisons.

Despite the Biden administration’s vow to fix the broken prison system — with new leadership and an emphasis on turning prisoners into “good neighbors” — the agency has continued to struggle with violence, understaffing, abuse and misconduct.

Nassar’s stabbing, just weeks after “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s suicide at a North Carolina federal medical center and amid lingering fallout from Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 jail suicide, also highlighted the agency’s inability to keep even its highest profile prisoners safe.

“This kind of violence in our federal prisons is inexcusable,” said Daniel Landsman, the deputy director of policy at the criminal justice advocacy group FAMM, or Families Against Mandatory Minimums. “The failures that led to this assault are not isolated — too often we see similar incidents impact incarcerated people across the country.”

“The assault of Larry Nassar raises a number of questions regarding safety in in federal prisons,” Landsman said.

The Bureau of Prisons did not respond Tuesday to AP’s questions about Nassar’s stabbing, and violence, low staffing levels and other problems plaguing its facilities. In a statement Monday, the agency confirmed an altercation involving an inmate at the United States Penitentiary Coleman, but declined to identify the person “for privacy, safety and security reasons.”

Nassar, 59, was attacked inside his cell Sunday by a prisoner armed with a makeshift weapon, according to the person familiar with the matter. Nassar was stabbed multiple times in the neck, chest and back. Two officers guarding the unit where Nassar was held were working mandated overtime shifts because of staffing shortages, the person said.

The person was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack or the ongoing investigation and did so on condition anonymity.

Nassar was previously assaulted in May 2018 at a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, within hours of being placed in general population — an attack his lawyers blamed on the notoriety of his case and a seven-day televised sentencing where scores of victims made impassioned statements. Nassar’s lawyers did not specify the nature or severity of that attack.

Cell doors on most federal prison units are typically open during the day, letting prisoners move around freely within the facility. Surveillance cameras aren’t positioned to see inside cells, though other cameras may have captured Nassar’s assailant walking in and out of the cell.

At some federal prison facilities, including the Manhattan jail where Epstein died, surveillance cameras been found to malfunction or not record at all — an issue Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) sought to address last December with a law requiring the Bureau of Prisons to overhaul failing and outdated security systems. The agency, however, has been slow to make progress.

Facing increased scrutiny in the wake of Epstein’s suicide and an ongoing AP investigation that has uncovered myriad scandals, Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters has pledged to overhaul recruiting and hiring practices and end systemic abuse and corruption.

But changing the culture of the massive agency — the Justice Department’s largest with more than 30,000 employees, 158,000 inmates and an annual budget of about $8 billion — has proved exceedingly difficult. Correctional workers say they’ve seen no meaningful reforms to fix longtime staffing problems that put inmates’ and their own lives at risk.

Just two weeks before Nassar’s stabbing, workers at the Florida prison complex where he was attacked organized a protest outside a nearby supermarket to highlight what they said were dangerous staffing levels.

“They’re going to have somebody killed, either staff or an inmate, if they don’t fix the problem,” said Jose Rojas, the union president at the Coleman prison complex. “We sounded the alarm, we warned the public, and I hate to be prophetic, but we were right.”

At Nassar’s prison, known as USP Coleman II, nearly one-quarter of correctional officer positions are vacant, according to records obtained by AP. Staffing guidelines show the facility, with more than 1,200 prisoners, should have 222 correctional officers. Only 169 positions are filled.

The day Nassar was stabbed, 44 posts were left vacant and unassigned at the prison, records show. One of the officers assigned to Nassar’s unit was working a third straight 16-hour day, while the other officer was on a second straight day of mandated overtime.

The AP has revealed widespread criminal conduct by employees, sexual abuse by workers, inmate escapes, and staffing shortages that have hampered responses to emergencies.

Last August, the Justice Department appointed Peters — a reformer who previously ran Oregon’s state prison system — to replace former Bureau of Prisons Director Michael Carvajal, a Washed Up 45 administration holdover who clashed with Congress, claimed staffing wasn’t problematic and had to be subpoenaed before attending one of his last oversight hearings.

Peters, in turn, has focused on shifting the Bureau of Prisons away from its strictly carceral roots, emphasizing that “our job is to make good neighbors, not good inmates.” Peters has rewritten the agency’s mission statement to emphasize employees’ job to “foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety” by preparing people behind bars for successful reentry into their communities.