Closeout At Big Lots!

Big Lots folds.

The biggest threats to America.

• Donald J. Trump
• Republicans 
• Joe Biden 
• Israel
• Russia
• White supremacy 
• Christian nationalism
• Jewish nationalism
• Police immunity 
• Democrats
• Private equity firms
• Uneducated people 
• Status quo
• Fox 
• Elon Musk
• Gun violence
• Greed
• Jeff Bezos
• Benjamin Netanyahu 
• Catholics
• Artificial Intelligence 
• Sexually transmitted diseases 
• Billionaires

If this list offends you, good. Because I am no longer shielding the obvious. These individuals and entities are furthering America's decline. These entities pose a clear and present danger to people of color, the needy and working class.

Damn shame we voted for the chaotic status quo of a Trump presidency.

This is the results of a Biden presidency. Once Trump gets back in, it only gets worse.

The Columbus, Ohio based discount retailer and closeout furniture company is officially going out of business.

Big Lots confirm that the private equity firm backed out of purchasing the company. Now it goes to Chapter 7 liquidation. It will close the 790 stores nationwide.

Founded in 1967 as Consolidated Stores, it has over 900 locations across the United States. Big Lots stores typically sell closeout and overstock merchandise from other stores, although some stores also sell furniture.

In October 2023, CreditRiskMonitor reported that Big Lots was nearing a potential Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The company closed 52 stores in 2023. In July 2024, Big Lots announced the closure of 35 to 40 underperforming locations nationwide, blaming inflation and high rising costs as part of the decision. The company warned that it might not be able to survive the rest of 2024 and that a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing might be imminent; in the first quarter of 2024, net sales decreased 10.2% compared to the first quarter of 2023. Of the company's 1,400 stores nationwide, 144 stores were confirmed to be closing that month including one in Rapid City, South Dakota, the only one in the state. In a filing on July 31, 2024, Big Lots reported that it would close up to 315 stores.

On August 28, 2024, Big Lots warned that they could file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection within the coming weeks, blaming declining sales caused by rising interest rates as part of the decision. The company is searching for options to avoid a potential filing. The company's stock sank 27% after the announcement. On September 9, 2024, Big Lots filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, with plans to sell itself to Nexus Capital Management.

On December 19, 2024, Big Lots announced that it did not anticipate closing the sale to Nexus, and that the company would begin “going out of business” sales at all of its 963 remaining locations. CEO Bruce Thorn said the company would continue “efforts to secure an alternative deal with Nexus or another party".

Big Lots said in a release Thursday that it no longer anticipates being able to complete a previously announced agreement with a private equity group to salvage the company.

However, it said, it continues to work toward completing an alternative transaction with the group, Los Angeles-based Nexus Capital Management, or another party.

In September, Big Lots filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization after having suffered continuous losses. The Columbus, Ohio-based firm has announced hundreds of store closings this year.

The brick-and-mortar retail landscape in general took another series of blows in 2024, with 49 retail bankruptcies (including those of automobile dealers and direct-to-consumer brands) in the United States, compared with 25 retail bankruptcies tracked in 2023, according to data from Coresight Research, a consumer insights group.

Coresight has confirmed more than 7,300 store closings this year, led by Family Dollar, with 718, followed by CVS, with 586, and Big Lots, with 580.

That compares with 4,627 store closings across the retail industry by this time last year, Coresight said.

Neil Cavuto Out At Fox!

Besides Sean "Softball" Hannity, Neil Cavuto jumped onto Fox since its beginning. Now 28 years later, he packing it up.

One of the longtime figures on Fox and Fox Business is leaving.

Neil Cavuto, a business journalist at Fox whose weekday afternoon news show frequently annoyed President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters, left the network after 28 years following a final show on Thursday.

A workhorse who had been with Fox since its inception in 1996, Cavuto also hosted programs at Fox’s sister, the Fox Business Network, and was not considered one of the stable of opinion hosts.

His final show briskly moved through a succession of news stories, including the potential for a government funding deal, stock market fluctuations and a strike by Amazon workers. He addressed his exit at the end, thanking Fox for his years on the network but saying that “I’m not leaving journalism. I’m just leaving here.”

“I got to do what I love here — report the news, not shout the news, not blast the news,” he said, adding that his goal was to “tell truth to power and fairness to all. That’s me.”

He thanked viewers, while noting the ones who wrote to suggest he do things “that I think were anatomically impossible to do.”

Fox said in a statement: “Neil Cavuto’s illustrious career has been a master class in journalism and we’re extremely proud of his incredible 28-year run with Fox News Media. His programs have defined business news and set the standard for the entire industry. We wish him a heartfelt farewell and all the best on his next chapter.”

Unlike many at Fox, he has not interviewed President-elect Donald Trump since 2017 and sometimes has angered him. One time came when Cavuto said on his show in September that Trump had “decisively lost” his debate with Democrat Kamala Harris.

Cavuto remarked this summer that when the stock market goes up, Trump says it is because of investors looking forward to him being back in power, but when it’s down, he blames the Democrats.

On social media Thursday, Trump used all-caps to say Cavuto’s departure is “GOOD NEWS FOR AMERICA.” He said it “should have happened a long time ago.”

While Cavuto’s exit removes a Trump irritant from Fox just before the president-elect returns to office, that fact had nothing to do with it, said a person at the network with knowledge of the discussions but spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about contracts. Cavuto’s contract was coming to an end and while he was offered an extension, he decided to leave, the person said. Cavuto confirmed the offer, while not explaining his reasons for exiting.

With the television news business hurting financially, some major personalities have reportedly been asked to take pay cuts. Some, like the “Today” show’s Hoda Kotb, decided to leave instead.

Even before Cavuto addressed his exit, each of the guests on his final show saluted him. Reporter Aishah Hasnie called him a hero, and billionaire investor Ken Fisher said, “if you need any help, you will always have a friend in me.”

“You call balls and strikes,” said Bob Cusack, editor in chief of The Hill. “You’re not a yes man.”

Cavuto, 66, has stayed on the job despite a number of health issues through the years. He has multiple sclerosis, underwent heart surgery and had bouts of long COVID. One fellow Fox personality, Janice Dean, said on social media that when she was diagnosed with MS, Cavuto “gave me hope that I could still pursue my dreams.”

There’s no immediate word on who will replace Cavuto at 4 p.m. Eastern on Fox’s schedule, a coveted slot before the network’s most popular show, “The Five.”

Fani Willis Removed From Trump Election Trial!

Republicans in the Georgia State Appeals removes Fani Willis.

White privilege at its finest.

Y'all voted for this.

Even though she won her bid to stay on as Fulton County, Georgia prosecutor, District Attorney Fani Willis was removed off the election interference trial of former president Donald J. Trump (current president-elect).

With Trump returning to power, the case is likely going to be thrown out.

The case against Trump and more than a dozen others had already been stalled for months over an appeal related to a romantic relationship Willis had with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, whom she had hired to lead the case.

Citing an “appearance of impropriety” that might not typically warrant such a removal, a Georgia Court of Appeals panel said in a 2-1 ruling that “this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings.” Willis’ office immediately filed a notice of intent to ask the Georgia Supreme Court to review the decision.

But pursuing a criminal case against a sitting president is a virtual impossibility. And Trump will return to the White House having overcome efforts to prosecute him and empowered by a Supreme Court ruling granting him presumptive immunity for any “official acts” he takes in office.

The development comes weeks after Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith abandoned two federal prosecutions against the incoming president, and as sentencing in a separate hush money case in New York is indefinitely on hold as a result of Trump’s victory in November over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

A grand jury in Atlanta indicted Trump and 18 others in August 2023, using the state’s anti-racketeering law to accuse them of participating in a wide-ranging scheme to illegally try to overturn Trump’s narrow 2020 presidential election loss to Democrat Joe Biden in Georgia. The alleged scheme included Trump’s call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger urging him to help find enough votes to beat Biden. Four people have pleaded guilty.

Trump told Fox News Digital that the case “should not be allowed to go any further.” The president-elect added: “Everybody should receive an apology, including those wonderful patriots who have been caught up in this for years.”

Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead attorney in Georgia, said the ruling was “well-reasoned and just.” He said the appeals court “highlighted that Willis’ misconduct created an ‘odor of mendacity’ and an appearance of impropriety that could only be cured by the disqualification of her and her entire office.”

“This decision puts an end to a politically motivated persecution of the next President of the United States,” Sadow wrote in an emailed statement.

Representatives for Willis did not immediately respond to a text message seeking comment on the ruling.

The allegations that Willis had improperly benefited from her romance with Wade resulted in a tumultuous couple of months in the case as intimate details of Willis and Wade’s personal lives were aired in court in mid-February. A defendant’s motion alleged that Willis and Wade were involved in an inappropriate romantic relationship and that Willis paid Wade large sums for his work and then benefited when he paid for lavish vacations.

The King of White Privilege.

Willis and Wade acknowledged the relationship but said they didn’t begin dating until the spring of 2022. Wade was hired in November 2021, and their romance ended in the summer of 2023, they said. They also testified that they split travel and other costs roughly evenly, with Willis often paying expenses or reimbursing Wade in cash.

Speaking at a historically Black church in Atlanta soon after the relationship allegations surfaced, Willis defended Wade’s qualifications and her own leadership of her office. Defense lawyers said that speech included a series of improper and prejudicial comments against the defendants and their legal team, poisoning any potential jurors against them.

The appeals court majority opinion, written by Judge Trenton Brown and joined by Judge Todd Markle, said “the remedy crafted by the trial court to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety that existed at times when DA Willis was exercising her broad pretrial discretion about who to prosecute and what charges to bring.”

In a dissenting opinion, Judge Benjamin Land wrote that “the law does not support the result reached by the majority.” Trial court judges, he said, have broad discretion to to impose a remedy to fit a situation and the appeals court should respect that.

“We are here to ensure the law has been applied correctly and to correct harmful legal errors when we see them. It is not our job to second-guess trial judges or to substitute our judgment for theirs,” he wrote.

“Where, as here, a prosecutor has no actual conflict of interest and the trial court, based on the evidence presented to it, rejects the allegations of actual impropriety, we have no authority to reverse the trial court’s denial of a motion to disqualify,” he said, arguing that the majority opinion goes against decades of precedent in Georgia.

The ruling by the appeals court panel means it will be up to the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia to find another prosecutor to take over the case, though that could be delayed if the state Supreme Court takes the case. It could be difficult to find another prosecutor willing to take it on given the extensive resources needed to prosecute the sprawling and complex case. That person could continue on the track that Willis has taken, decide to pursue only some charges or dismiss the case altogether.

Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee, the trial court judge, had ruled in March that no conflict of interest existed that should force Willis off the case. Trump and the others appealed that ruling.

McAfee wrote that the prosecution was “encumbered by an appearance of impropriety.” He said Willis could remain on the case only if Wade left; the special prosecutor submitted his resignation hours later.

Rayful Edmond Passed Away!

Boss Man.

The Colombian cartels managed to unalive a former cocaine kingpin. A man who was known for making Washington, DC as the "murder capital of the nation."

He was considered one of the most profitable cocaine kingpins in the 1980s.

The Washington area's most notorious Rayful Edmond was killed.

After he was released from federal time out, only four months out and he was assassinated at the age of 60.

Over 40 years ago, Edmond was dealing and killing since he got into the game at 14 years old.

Edmond was alleged to have moved large amounts of cocaine. In an indictment involving two of Edmond's associates Dwayne (D.C. Scorpio), it was said that they bought between 1,000 and 2,000 kilos per week in 1992 from the Trujillo-Blanco brothers, who were associated with the Medellin cartel, and sold the drugs to Washington area wholesalers. He was known to have spent some $457,619 in an exclusive Georgetown store (Linea Pitti, specializing in Italian men's clothing) owned by Charles Wynn who was later convicted on 34 counts of money laundering. Edmond's estimated revenue was approximately $300 million annually. In one year, Edmond's organization, which employed 150 people, committed 30 murders.

Edmond apologized for his past transgressions.

On July 31, 2024, Edmond was transferred from prison to a halfway house at an undisclosed location in Kentucky or Tennessee under the supervision of the Bureau of Prisons Nashville Residential Reentry Management Office. He died in Florida on December 17, 2024, only a few months after his release from prison, from a heart attack. He was 60.

If you believe he had a heart attack, you don't know the cartels. They know how to off someone without using weapons.

Lil Wayne And Chris Brown Partied On Pandemic Funds!

These bitches ain't loyal.

Damn K. Dot killing these rappers.

Figuratively speaking of course.

Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. and Christopher Maurice Brown are accused of using taxpayer assistance to party like rock stars. Of course, they are rappers/rock stars.

Lil Wayne and Chris Brown are Blood to the core.

They bleed the federal assistance relief dry during the coronavirus pandemic despite being millionaires. They backed President-elect Donald J. Trump.

Breezy is most notorious for his near career ending assault on Rihanna.

Wheezy is known for his ongoing fallouts with Cash Money Records, Drake, Nicki Minaj and his baby mamas.

According to a Business Insider investigation, both Lil Wayne and Chris Brown are under scrutiny over their alleged use of COVID-19 pandemic relief grant money. The outlet reports that Lil Wayne received a grant worth $8.9 million from a pandemic relief program set up to help independent venues and artists recover from revenue lost during the lockdown.

As for Brown, his company CBE Touring, allegedly received a total of $10 million, with $5.1 allegedly going to Brown personally.

Lil Wayne spent his money on various stays at luxury hotels and other frivolous purchases, allocating over $1.3 million of the relief money to private-jet travel and over $460,000 to high-end clothing brands.

Chris Brown allegedly spent $80,000 on his own birthday party, for which he bought “atmosphere models,” an LED dance floor, bottle service, hookahs, and “nitrogen ice cream,” just to name a few. Not to mention the $24,000 on a tour bus ride to Tulum.

Business Insider also reported that Lil Wayne spent $15,000 for flights and hotel rooms for women whose connection to the paper and his team is not clear, including an adult film actress and a waitress from a “breastaurant.”

On New Year’s Eve 2021, Lil Wayne was scheduled to perform a show in Southern California. He ended up canceling due to “the wind and the flights.” Despite not showing up, the rapper reportedly billed taxpayers nearly $88,000 for the trip.

Additionally, Hot New Hip-Hop reported that social media posts left clues that Lil Wayne might have been partying with 2 Chainz at a club on Sunset Boulevard the same night of the canceled concert.

Other artists accused of mishandling COVID-19 relief funds include Alice in Chains, Steve Aoki, and Marshmello.

According to the report, producer and DJ Marshmello received $9.9 million in grant money. Rather than allocating it to dancers, private jets, or members of his staff, however, he awarded the entire payment to himself.

These millionaire artists were able to receive money meant for smaller, struggling musicians thanks to a loophole in the Small Business Association’s SVOG program. In a statement to Business Insider, the SBA claimed that it was directed to examine revenue, not the assets of recipients.

Offering his take on the matter, Former Comptroller General of the United States David Walker told Business Insider, “At a minimum, it smells,” then added, “Whether it’s legal or not is up to a lawyer or ultimately to a court. But it sure smells.” At this time, neither Lil Wayne nor Chris Brown appear to have commented on the report.

Blame Game: Natalie Rupnow!

The junk food media always humanize white mass shooters.

The U.S. Department of Justice is looking to charge the white man who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson with terrorism. He eluded authorities for five days before he was apprehended in an Altoona, Pennsylvania McDonald's. He is currently in federal time out awaiting trial in New York City. 

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

The 15 year old white girl that massacred her school in Madison, Wisconsin is not called a terrorist. The shooter killed herself and two others. The parents are on the state and feds radar for allowing her access to firearms.

So mass shootings aren't terrorism but a random targeted killing is!

This the 83rd school shooting and 570th mass shooting in the United States.

So terrorism only applies when its anti status quo, Brown, Black or Muslim. If its targeting elites and politicians, the status quo and white people, it's called terrorism.

Got it.

BLAME GAME.

Who is actually resposnible for the mass shooting?

The far right will always blame it on either progressives, Democratic lawmakers, video games, lack of parenting, rap music, violent movies, media personalities, comic books and lack of religion.

Of course, we ignore the fact that most firearms are purchased legally. Many of the parents or gun owners leave firearsm within easy reach of children or mentally disturbed. Many gotten comfortable with the notion that a mass shooting will not happen at their job, school, shopping center, movie theater, wedding, funeral, concert or random trip.

We have lawmakers embolden to lobbyists. The National Rifle Associaton and America Israel Public Affairs Committee are by far the most notorious organizations infesting Washington.

President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald J. Trump are old, senile and completely out of touch with reality. Biden gotten at least one milestone in firearms by signing into law a watered down gun reform law. Thanks to Joe Manchin and the 49 Republicans, gun reform has been stalled.

The suspect was Natalie Rupnow, a white woman who veered into far right extremism. She also went under the guise of Samantha.

Rupnow was armed with two handguns during the shooting, but only used her 9mm caliber. Rupnow's parents divorced and re-married twice. She had been enrolled in therapy by July 2022, which was supposed to help guide decisions about with which parent she would spend weekends.

Months prior to the shooting in August, Rupnow joined a gun club when her father took her to a shooting range. He wrote in a Facebook comment that they had joined the club in spring and had been “loving every second of it”.

Reduxx's Anna Slatz posted on X (formerly Twitter) what she alleged to be the shooter's manifesto. At the time of publication the manifesto was not yet authenticated by Madison police. Rupnow's alleged social media accounts contained feelings of alienation. A photo of her wearing a KMFDM T-shirt—the same type that Eric Harris, one of the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre, wore in various amateur videos—spread online.

Erin West and Rubi Vergara didn't expect a student to rampage on the school. They died.

Rupnow was declared dead while being transported to the local hospital from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Including the shooting, there have been eighty-three school shootings in the United States in 2024. Cases with female school shooting perpetrators are rare, with only eight others or about 4% identified as female since the 1999 Columbine High School shooting.

On December 16, 2024, the two victims were identified by the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office as 42-year-old teacher Erin West of DeForest and 14-year-old student Rubi Vergara.

A bullet doesn't care about color. We all bleed red and so many lives are lost to gun violence and Republicans offer no solutions other than "thoughts and prayers" with a touch of "lock em up."

Lives are always altered when gun violence happens.

An active shooter doesn't care about the politics, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, your finances, your family, your plans that day, your successes, your failures, and most importantly, your life.

You're not safe in the school, the concert, the hospital, the church, the casino, the bus station, the subway, the light rail train, the buses, the malls, the local big box store, the political rally, the protest rally, the women's center for reproductive surgeries, the mosque, the synagogue, the state buildings, the workplace, the gas station, the family picnic, the food truck rally, the funerals, the birthday parties, the graduations, the wedding, the televised events, the sporting events and many more events that have some terrorist with a firearm. Domestic violence, suicide, racism, culture war inspired, politically motivated and international operative inspired are types of gun violence.

Gun violence is the number one threat in the United States.

I dismiss this ridiculous notion that criminals are the problem, not the guns. Firearms are often obtained through legal purchases. 

Again, having more security, teachers being armed and offering safe rooms are not solving the problem. The problem is legislators not willing to stop gun violence.

According to the  far right :  White shooters are mentally ill. Black shooters are unrepentant thugs and criminals. Gay shooters are active groomers. Muslim shooters are terrorists. Hispanic and Asian shooters are illegal immigrants. According to the far right, almost all white [or non-white] mass shooters are registered Democrats [or some progressive activist] because they have liked or done one thing common to the left. Of course, they often share or post disinformation by using the "Sam Hyde" meme or make bogus social media platforms with the shooter's image as a way to denounce most mass shooters being white or associated with conservative causes. The far right says a white person should "protect" themselves from thugs, terrorists or protesters. They believe the use of firearms are "justified" if they are protesting or even instigating a conflict. The far right believes if a shooter is a police officer, an active military member, a veteran or a citizen who supports conservative causes, they are considered a "heroes" and use of firearms are justified. If the shooters are teens in urban communities, the far right automatically assumes the gunmen are Black.

The Republicans usually amplify white victims. Anytime a person of color kills a white victim, it is often wall-to-wall coverage on Fox, Twitter and they force it into national news. They make the case to blame Black Lives Matter, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Democrats, Rev. Al Sharpton and rap music for Black on whatever violence. Republican legislators who do not live in urban neighborhoods often troll social media to talk about gun violence or crime in Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee and New York City while not doing a damn thing to stop it. If a white person shoots a Black person, the shooter is given the benefit of doubt. White shooters are given glowing profiles about their perfect lives and how friends noticed something but refused to do something. When it comes to Black shooters, automatic vilification. They don't see mental illness. They see it as gang violence, allegedly fatherless homes, Democratic policies or the need for more firearms. 

The far right and Republicans exploit gun violence in the Black community for culture wars and racism.

An image of the school shooter. 

So in closing, expect more.

The website  Officer Down  is a memorial to those police officers who were killed in the line of duty. Those victims who don't get their names or accomplishments mentioned in the junk food media. Also the website the  National Gun Violence Memorial  also keeps record of the  many individuals  killed by  gun violence . We are  tracking police violence  as well. 

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 White House and US Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the US Secret Service and US Capitol Police. 

Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that we are tired of police officers using immunity when committing death of suspects in custody. Let them know that you are tired of private equity firms getting away with destroying small businesses and long established companies. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-Semitic or in support of terrorism. 

We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and legislators avoid influence from lobbyists.

The Bahamas Is A Foreign Country, Hershel!

I'm tell Bahamians that I'm a bikini inspector.

Y'all voted for this.

President-elect Donald J. Trump is a sexual predator. So is Pete Hegseth, Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Michael Waltz and Hershel Walker.

Hershel Walker gets a job. He can whip out his badge. 

Figurely speaking of course.

“Herschel has spent decades serving as an Ambassador to our Nation’s youth, our men and women in the Military, and athletes at home and abroad,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Trump noted Walker previously served as a co-chair for the White House’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition during his first term.

 Walker was a celebrated running back at the University of Georgia, where he won the Heisman Trophy. He went on to play in the NFL.

Trump quipped in early November, before Election Day, that he would put Walker in charge of a new missile defense shield if elected.

The former Georgia Republican senate candidate, former football and mixed martial arts star is picked to be the ambassador to The Bahamas.

Walker who challenged Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) is the latest of MAGAland to jump from loser to minion. Mehmet Oz, another former senate candidate and media personality has a position with Medicare and Medicaid.

Neither candidate received 50 percent of the vote in the general election, and Warnock defeated Walker in a runoff. Walker’s campaign, however, was plagued by controversies and false statements. Warnock won by 1.4 points in the runoff. Walker lives in Texas but claimed residency at his mother's home in Georgia.

The Bahamas is located about 40 miles east of Florida. It is part of the British commonwealth but is expected to declare itself a republic if a referendum comes forth in 2027. 

Trump will enter the White House again with low job approval.

Walker and Oz were part of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. President Joe Biden personally fired them after they refused to step down in February 2021.

Republicans Want To Put Liz Cheney In Federal Time Out!

Liz Cheney ain't worried about Republicans threats to jail her for protecting democracy.

When the 119th Session of Congress begins, Republicans in the House of Representatives have plans on rehashing old political issues.

Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton, Michael Byrd, President Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci, MSNBC, the New York Times and college presidents will be on the menu.

Republicans emboldened by Donald J. Trump's victory and their slim majorities in the House and Senate plan on enacting unpopular policies and political revenge.

Former Wyoming lawmaker Liz Cheney and former Illinois lawmaker Adam Kinzinger are targets of Republican ire. They want to criminally charge them for allegedly betraying Trump.

What gets me is why should Liz Cheney be prosecuted for something that she had no part in?

Wrapping up their own investigation on the Jan. 6 2021 Capitol attack, House Republicans have concluded it’s Cheney who should be prosecuted for probing what happened when then-President Donald Trump sent his mob of supporters as Congress was certifying the 2020 election.

The findings issued Tuesday show the Republican Party working to reinforce Trump’s desire to punish his perceived enemies including Cheney and members of the Jan. 6 committee that the president-elect has said should be in jail.

House Administration Committee Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), wrote, “Until we hold accountable those responsible, and reform our institutions, we will not fully regain trust.”

The panel Republicans’ 128-page interim report arrives as Trump is preparing his return to the White House and working to staff his administration with officials at the highest levels, including Kash Patel as FBI Director, who appear like-minded in his efforts at retribution. Trump also vows to pardon people who were convicted for roles in the riot at the Capitol.

It revisits long-running Republican arguments that Trump is not to blame for the attack on the Capitol. The Department of Justice has prosecuted some 1,500 people including the leaders of the militant Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, and indicted Trump on four criminal charges, including conspiracy to overturn the election. Special counsel Jack Smith has since abandoned the case against Trump ahead of the inauguration in adherence to Justice Department guidelines that sitting presidents cannot be charged.

But the new report’s conclusion singles out Cheney, the daughter of the former vice president, and herself once a rising conservative star who was kicked out of GOP leadership after her vote to impeach Trump for inciting the insurrection. Once she became vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee, Cheney lost her own reelection to a Trump-backed challenger in Wyoming. By fall, Cheney was working to stop Trump from returning to the White House, having campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Cheney on Tuesday delivered a detailed defense of her committee’s painstaking work, the 900-page Jan. 6 report released in December 2022, and said Loudermilk’s own report “disregards the truth.”

“January 6th showed Donald Trump for who he really is – a cruel and vindictive man who allowed violent attacks to continue against our Capitol and law enforcement officers while he watched television and refused for hours to instruct his supporters to stand down and leave,” Cheney said in a statement.

“Now, Chairman Loudermilk’s ‘Interim Report’ intentionally disregards the truth and the Select Committee’s tremendous weight of evidence, and instead fabricates lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump did.”

Lurch trying to prosecute members of the Jan. 6 Committee. Barry Loudermilk is a moron.

President Joe Biden is considering issuing pardons to spare members of Congress and others from Trump’s wrath. But several of the people involved have said they are not seeking or don’t want pardons from Biden.

Among those Trump wants prosecuted are Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Cheney and others members of the Jan. 6 committee, as well as Smith, the DOJ special counsel who indicted Trump.

The report’s release comes at a timely moment when Congress will be asked in the weeks ahead to confirm the results of the 2024 election. But unlike four years ago, when Republicans refused to accept Biden’s victory over Trump and claimed voter fraud, the Democrats say they trust and accept the election results.

The GOP panel’s findings revisit the multiple security failings on Jan. 6, 2021, and revive the dispute over the lag in calling in the National Guard, which along with police reinforcements, restored order at the Capitol by nightfall. Congress returned to work that evening and worked into the next morning to certify the 2020 election for Biden.

“This report reveals that there was not just one single cause for what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6,” Loudermilk wrote in an introduction. “The Capitol is no safer today.”

But Loudermilk focuses just as intently on the Jan. 6 committee that then-Speaker Pelosi stood up in the aftermath to investigate what happened, and its leaders Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS), and Cheney.

The report singles out Cheney for prosecution for her role in working with one of the star witnesses against Trump, a former young White House aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, who provided some of the most detailed descriptions of the defeated president’s actions that day.

Hutchinson had testified before the Jan. 6 committee in 2022 hearing that she had not been forthcoming during her first interviews with the panel and had a “moral struggle” and wanted to return.

She eventually ditched her Trump-aligned lawyer and later delivered a blockbuster public hearing, describing Trump at the White House as the Capitol riot unfolded.

Cheney, in her own account in her book “Oath and Honor” of the committee’s work, had been crucial in meeting with Cassidy and worried for her safety as she decided to come forward.

Loudermilk’s panel concludes these actions are witness tampering and grounds for prosecution.

“Numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney,” the committee wrote in its conclusion. “These violations should be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”

It also says Thompson broke House rules in the handling of files and transcripts.

Thompson said the report was filled with “baseless” allegations. “There’s no escaping the reality that Donald Trump bears the responsibility for the deadly January 6th attack no matter how much Mr. Loudermilk would love to rewrite history,” he said.

Trump in an interview earlier this month revived his campaign promises to go after those who blamed him for Jan. 6.

“Honestly, they should go to jail,” referring to members of Congress who investigated the Capitol attack.

Loudermilk is not the smartest tool in the box. If Trump pardons the insurrectionists, it greenlights a potential of lawmakers being assassinated.

Cause someone could be motivated to hunt lawmakers and it could endanger elected leaders from both sides of the chamber.

Victoria Spartz Not Playing In Any Reindeer Games!

President-elect Donald J. Trump's first headache. Republican Victoria Spartz may not be a rubber stamp for MAGAland.

Initially Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) was going to retire from Congress. She changed her mind. She ended up winning her reelection bid. The Indiana lawmaker announced she won't join any of the Republican conferences.

I will stay as a registered Republican but will not sit on committees or participate in the caucus until I see that Republican leadership in Congress is governing. I do not need to be involved in circuses. I would rather spend more of my time helping @DOGE and @RepThomasMassie to… https://t.co/ZNju2jvNHk

— Rep. Victoria Spartz (@RepSpartz) December 16, 2024

She represents Anderson, Carmel as well as parts of Kokamo and Indianapolis. The 5th Congressional District is strongly Republican.

Spartz is a Ukrainian American lawmaker and very sympathetic towards Ukraine. She is also supportive of the apartheid ethnostate of Israel.

With Donald J. Trump returning to power, he has openly called for an end to the Russo-Ukrainian war. He has even stated that Ukraine should allow Russia to seize eastern oblasts.

Republicans have a razor-thin lead over Democrats in the House and any uncertainty could rock pivotal votes away from the GOP and House Speaker Mike Johnson in the upcoming session.

“I will stay as a registered Republican but will not sit on committees or participate in the caucus until I see that Republican leadership in Congress is governing. I do not need to be involved in circuses,” Spartz wrote on X.

The decision to step down confused some Republicans, but others suspected the move had something to do with the House GOP Steering Committee not giving her a coveted post on the House Ways and Means Committee, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.

Spartz, who has had problems with retaining staff, said she’d prefer to “spend more of my time helping” the mission of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which is meant to help cut government spending.

Some Republicans are happy about her decision to boycott the conference meetings, according to two people familiar with the situation, as some had privately complained about her speaking too much during the internal GOP meetings.

Hopefully Republicans get so heated with one another they fail at accomplishing their goals of pushing unpopular policies.

I want the Republican Party, Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance to fail miserably.

And I don't have to apologize or bend the knee. I want the chaos to continue and the United States loose its grip on worldwide leadership. Trump, President Joe Biden and Congress want to continue the status quo of alliance with Israel.

Israel is exposed as the world's leading problem. Israel will fall and it will take the U.S. with it.

School Of Bullets And Blood: Mass Shooting In Madison!

Only in America. Deadly mass shooting at a Christian school in Wisconsin.

Another mass shooting at a school.

I normally do a long posting about the failures of Congress, President Joe Biden, President-elect Donald J. Trump, former president Barack Obama and former president George W. Bush. 

I am just going to flat out say it:

These idiots can't stop gun violence or Israel.

Another mass shooting in the United States and the usual remarks from legislators is "thoughts and prayers" or "my heart goes out to."

In the case of how Trump puts it, "we've got to get over it."

Or in the case of JD Vance, it's "a fact of life."

I am paraphrasing Trump and Vance but that is the shallow theme of his horrible legacy.

Y'all voted for this.

Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin reacts to the latest school shooting.

Madison, Wisconsin. 

Population of 313,000. The state capital.

Other mass shootings so far in 2024. Cities with multiple mass shootings in bold .

Philadelphia, Shreveport, Houston, Belan (NM), Lake Worth Beach (FL), Cicero (IL), Atlanta , Seattle, Theodore (AL), Lafayette (IN), Kalamazoo, Chicago, Red Springs (NC), Hollywood (FL ), New Orleans , Bradenton (FL), San Antonio, Jackson (TN), Miami, Denver , St. Louis , Columbus (OH), Sandy Hook (MS), Riverside (CA), Lancaster (CA), National City ( CA), San Diego, Albuquerque, Laurel (MS), Wichita, Tuskegee (AL), Lafayette (LA), Lynchburg (VA), Mount Joy (PA), Duluth (MN), Pittsburgh, Stillwater (OK), Detroit, Elkton (MD), Reno, New Haven, Northglenn (CO ) and Orlando.

560 mass shootings in the United States.

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, President-elect Donald J. Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance, Gov. Tony Evers, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and the US House members of Wisconsin were notified.

Suspect is a 15 year old girl.

The shooter took her life and a few others. The shooter opened fire with a handgun Monday at a Christian school in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and another teenager during the final week before Christmas break. The shooter also died, police said.

This is the normal.

The shooter also wounded six others at Abundant Life Christian School, including two students who were in critical condition, Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said. A teacher and three students had been taken to a hospital with less serious injuries, and two of them had been released by Monday evening.

“Every child, every person in that building is a victim and will be a victim forever. ...We need to figure out and try to piece together what exactly happened,” Barnes said.

Barbara Wiers, director of elementary and school relations for Abundant Life Christian School, said students “handled themselves magnificently.”

She said when the school practices safety routines, which it had done just before the school year, leaders always announce that it is a drill. That didn't happen Monday.

“When they heard, 'Lockdown, lockdown,' they knew it was real,” she said.

The shooter was a 17-year-old female student, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The officer was not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity.

Police said the shooter was dead by apparent suicide when officers arrived. Barnes declined to give details about the shooter, partly out of respect for the family. With a few rare exceptions, a 17-year-old can't legally possess a gun in Wisconsin.

Barnes said investigators may have enough information to release more detail about the shooter at another press conference later Monday.

Republicans support gun rights and mass shootings.

He also warned people against sharing unconfirmed reports on social media about the shooter's identity.

“What that does is it helps erode the trust in this process,” he said.

Abundant Life is a nondenominational Christian school — prekindergarten through high school — with approximately 420 students in Madison, the state capital.

Wiers said the school does not have metal detectors but uses other security measures including cameras.

Children and families were reunited at a medical building about a mile away. Parents pressed children against their chests while others squeezed hands and shoulders as they walked side by side. One girl was comforted with an adult-size coat around her shoulders as she moved to a parking lot teeming with police vehicles.

A motive for the shooting was not immediately known, but Barnes said they're talking to the parents of the suspected shooter and they are cooperating. He also said he didn't know if the people shot had been targeted.

“I don't know why, and I feel like if we did know why, we could stop these things from happening,” he told reporters.

A search warrant had been issued Monday to a Madison home, he said.

Someone from the school called 911 to report an active shooter shortly before 11 a.m. First responders who were in training just 3 miles (5 kilometers) away dashed to the school for an ongoing emergency, Barnes said. They arrived 3 minutes after the initial call and went into the building immediately.

Classes had been taking place when the shooting happened, Barnes said. He declined to say where exactly in the school it happened.

Investigators believe the shooter used a 9mm pistol, a law enforcement official told the AP. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.

Police blocked off roads around the school, and federal agents were at the scene to assist local law enforcement. No shots were fired by police.

Abundant Life asked for prayers in a brief Facebook post.

Wiers said the school's goal is to have staff get together early in the week and have community opportunities for students to reconnect before the winter break, but it's still to be decided whether they will resume classes this week.

Biden and Harris tried to warn America.

Bethany Highman, the mother of a student, rushed to the school and learned over FaceTime that her daughter was OK.

“As soon as it happened, your world stops for a minute. Nothing else matters,” Highman said. “There's nobody around you. “You just bolt for the door and try to do everything you can as a parent to be with your kids.”

In a statement, President Joe Biden cited the tragedy in calling on Congress to pass universal background checks, a national red flag law and certain gun restrictions.

“We can never accept senseless violence that traumatizes children, their families, and tears entire communities apart,” Biden said. He spoke with Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and offered their support.

Evers said it's “unthinkable” that a child or teacher would go to school and never return home.

The school shooting was the latest among dozens across the US in recent years, including especially deadly ones in Newtown, Connecticut; Parkland, Florida; and Uvalde, Texas.

The shootings have set off fervent debates about gun control and frayed the nerves of parents whose children are growing up accustomed to doing active shooter drills in their classrooms. But school shootings have done little to move the needle on national gun laws.

Firearms were the leading cause of death among children in 2020 and 2021, according to KFF, a nonprofit that researches health care issues.

Rhodes-Conway said the country needs to do more to prevent gun violence.

“I hoped that this day would never come to Madison,” she said.

A bullet doesn't care about color. We all bleed red and so many lives are lost to gun violence and Republicans offer no solutions other than "thoughts and prayers" with a touch of "lock em up."

Lives are always altered when gun violence happens.

An active shooter doesn't care about the politics, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, your finances, your family, your plans that day, your successes, your failures, and most importantly, your life.

You're not safe in the school, the concert, the hospital, the church, the casino, the bus station, the subway, the light rail train, the buses, the malls, the local big box store, the political rally, the protest rally, the women's center for reproductive surgeries, the mosque, the synagogue, the state buildings, the workplace, the gas station, the family picnic, the food truck rally, the funerals, the birthday parties, the graduations, the wedding, the televised events, the sporting events and many more events that have some terrorist with a firearm. Domestic violence, suicide, racism, culture war inspired, politically motivated and international operative inspired are types of gun violence.

Gun violence is the number one threat in the United States.

I dismiss this ridiculous notion that criminals are the problem, not the guns. Firearms are often obtained through legal purchases. 

Again, having more security, teachers being armed and offering safe rooms are not solving the problem. The problem is legislators not willing to stop gun violence.

According to the  far right :  White shooters are mentally ill. Black shooters are unrepentant thugs and criminals. Gay shooters are active groomers. Muslim shooters are terrorists. Hispanic and Asian shooters are illegal immigrants. According to the far right, almost all white [or non-white] mass shooters are registered Democrats [or some progressive activist] because they have liked or done one thing common to the left. Of course, they often share or post disinformation by using the "Sam Hyde" meme or make bogus social media platforms with the shooter's image as a way to denounce most mass shooters being white or associated with conservative causes. The far right says a white person should "protect" themselves from thugs, terrorists or protesters. They believe the use of firearms are "justified" if they are protesting or even instigating a conflict. The far right believes if a shooter is a police officer, an active military member, a veteran or a citizen who supports conservative causes, they are considered a "heroes" and use of firearms are justified. If the shooters are teens in urban communities, the far right automatically assumes the gunmen are Black.

The Republicans usually amplify white victims. Anytime a person of color kills a white victim, it is often wall-to-wall coverage on Fox, Twitter and they force it into national news. They make the case to blame Black Lives Matter, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Democrats, Rev. Al Sharpton and rap music for Black on whatever violence. Republican legislators who do not live in urban neighborhoods often troll social media to talk about gun violence or crime in Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee and New York City while not doing a damn thing to stop it. If a white person shoots a Black person, the shooter is given the benefit of doubt. White shooters are given glowing profiles about their perfect lives and how friends noticed something but refused to do something. When it comes to Black shooters, automatic vilification. They don't see mental illness. They see it as gang violence, allegedly fatherless homes, Democratic policies or the need for more firearms. 

The far right and Republicans exploit gun violence in the Black community for culture wars and racism.

An image of the school shooter. 

So in closing, expect more.

The website  Officer Down  is a memorial to those police officers who were killed in the line of duty. Those victims who don't get their names or accomplishments mentioned in the junk food media. Also the website the  National Gun Violence Memorial  also keeps record of the  many individuals  killed by  gun violence . We are  tracking police violence  as well. 

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 White House and US Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the US Secret Service and US Capitol Police. 

Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that we are tired of police officers using immunity when committing death of suspects in custody. Let them know that you are tired of private equity firms getting away with destroying small businesses and long established companies. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-Semitic or in support of terrorism. 

We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and legislators avoid influence from lobbyists.