In The Line Of Fire: Mass Shooting In Coeur D'Alene!

Another mass shooting. In Idaho, a gunman opens fire on firefighters.

The latest mass shooting to become fodder in the culture wars. 

On Sunday, a man in Idaho starts a wildfire and the first responders arrive only to be ambushed. The shooting kills two firefighters and the shooter kills himself.

President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Gov. Brad Little, Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID), Rep. Russ Fulcher (R-ID) and Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID) were notified. 

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A man armed with a rifle started a wildfire Sunday and then began shooting at first responders in a northern Idaho mountain community, killing two firefighters and wounding a third during a barrage of gunfire over several hours, authorities said.

A shelter-in-place order was lifted Sunday night after a tactical response team used cell phone data to “hone in” on a wooded area where they found the suspect’s body with a firearm nearby as flames rapidly approached, Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris said.

Officials did not release his name, nor did they say what kind of gun was found.

“We do believe that the suspect started the fire, and we do believe that it was an ambush and it was intentional,” Norris said at a Sunday night news conference. “These firefighters did not have a chance.”

Sheriff’s officials said crews responded to a fire at Canfield Mountain just north of Coeur d’Alene around 1:30 p.m., and gunshots were reported about a half hour later.

Suspect lit a wildfire to lure fire fighters and police,

Investigators said the gunman acted alone.

“We believe that was the only shooter that was on that mountain at that time,” Norris said.

Three victims were brought to Kootenai Health, said hospital spokesperson Kim Anderson. Two were dead on arrival and the third was being treated for injuries, Anderson said. The wounded firefighter was “fighting for his life” after surgery and was in stable condition, Norris said.

The scene was sheer pandemonium as the brush fire burned and firefighters rushed to the scene only to come under heavy fire.

First responders made urgent calls for help on their radios: “Everybody’s shot up here ... send law enforcement now,” according to one dispatch.

Gov. Little said “multiple” firefighting personnel were attacked.

“This is a heinous direct assault on our brave firefighters,” Little said on X. “I ask all Idahoans to pray for them and their families as we wait to learn more.”

Norris said it appeared the sniper was hiding in the rugged terrain and using a high-powered rifle. He said he instructed deputies to fire back.

Just as the evening press conference was expected to begin, the bodies of the slain firefighters arrived in the nearby city of Spokane, Washington, escorted by a procession of fire and law enforcement vehicles. Firefighters and others saluted as the vehicles passed by.

An alert by the Kootenai County Emergency Management Office asked people to avoid the area around Canfield Mountain Trailhead and Nettleton Gulch Road, about 4 miles (6.5 km) north of downtown Coeur d’Alene.

Though the shelter-in-place order was lifted, the sheriff’s office cautioned residents to be prepared because the fire was still burning.

The FBI responded to the scene with technical teams and tactical support, Deputy Director Dan Bongino said.

The Idaho House Republican Leadership said in a statement: “We are horrified by the murder of two firefighters in Coeur d’Alene, and shocked by such a vicious attack on our first responders. We are praying for them, the injured, their families and their colleagues.”

Coeur d’Alene is a city of 55,000 residents near the border with Washington. Canfield Mountain is a popular hiking and biking area on the city’s outskirts, covered with trees and heavy brush and crisscrossed with trails that lead into a national forest.

Make America Great Again. We cannot stop gun violence but we can strip freedoms and due process in Idaho. Gov. Brad Little signed laws to affect Idahoans.

Fire is always a big concern for the region, said Bruce Deming, whose property abuts the trail system. When he noticed smoke on the ridge Sunday afternoon, he wondered why no firefighting helicopters were responding.

When a friend texted to tell him about the shooting, he realized why he wasn’t seeing aircraft: “Because they’re concerned about being shot at,” he said.

As deputies set up posts nearby, Deming pointed them to a trail that starts near his backdoor and leads directly to the site of the fire.

“I just don’t want to have to wake up in the middle of the night to figure if somebody’s out prowling around my place,” he said.

WHITE PRIVILEGE IS REAL! IT'S "SUIT AND TIE" WHITE SUPREMACY ON TELEVISION, RADIO, THE INTERNET AND AMERICAN POLICY!

FOR EVERY BAD COP, THERE WILL BE A DEAD COP!

IF THE UNITED STATES CONTINUES TO AID ISRAEL, THE WORLD WILL BOYCOTT THE U.S. AND ABANDON THE DOLLAR!

I DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET OR THE COP'S VERSION.

THERE IS NO GOD!

GOD IS NOT FIXING THIS!

FUCK YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS!

Trump gave us open season.

These murderers don't have mental illness. They are calculated and prepared. It happened to be a moment where they have the opportunity to take out lives.

There's no sickness in the head. Most mass shooters legally obtain their assault rifles without little background checks. They have likely no criminal history and they are willing to use the assault weapon in the only thing it's good for: Killing numerous lives.

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 lawmakers 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. 

Image of the alleged shooter. Not a Muslim. Not an Arab. Not a Black person.

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

Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions. 

Israel must be held accountable for war crimes and the U.S. must end its aid. Our taxpayer money should not help Israel any further.

Israel is the red line. If any lawmaker, entertainer, athlete or social media influncer backs the apartheid ethnostate, they will face a boycott. 

Regardless of political affiliation, if you are supporting Israel, you are not getting donations or a vote from me.

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 and school shootings as well. 

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Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to", blaming "illegal immigrants" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable. Let them know that you are tired of going to war at the behest of Israel or Urkaine. You want Congress and the president to solve the housing and homeless crisis. You want our American military out of the Middle East and every fucking international conflict in the world. You want legislation to focus on ending gun violence, lowering the cost of rent, lowering the cost of food, lowering the cost of hospital visits, improving healthcare and building relationships with other nations. 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 don't want any more wars on behalf of Israel. 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.

Thom Tillis Out!

Thom Tillis bows out after Trump threatens a primary challenge against him.

Republicans are fleeing too.

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) won't seek reelection. He is fearing the recent election in the city of Omaha, Nebraska opened up a path for Democrats. 

The former Republican Omaha mayor Jean Stothert will likely run for the seat.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) announce he will not seek reelection. After voting against the Big Beautiful Bill, President Donald J. Trump vows to endorse primary challengers against Tillis, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).

Tillis, a conservative but usually a swing in the Senate helped pass the Biden infrastructure law and confirmed almost every cabinet member in the Trump second term. A survivor of a stroke and prostate cancer, Tillis rejected the bills cuts to the safety net.

His decision will create a political opportunity for Democrats seeking to bolster their numbers in the 2026 midterm elections, opening a seat in a state that has long been a contested battleground. Republicans hold a 53-47 edge in the Senate.

Tillis, who would have been up for a third term, said he was proud of his career in public service but acknowledged the difficult political environment for those who buck their party and go it alone.

“In Washington over the last few years, it’s become increasingly evident that leaders who are willing to embrace bipartisanship, compromise, and demonstrate independent thinking are becoming an endangered species,” he said in a lengthy statement.

“Sometimes those bipartisan initiatives got me into trouble with my own party, but I wouldn’t have changed a single one.”

Trump, in social posts, had berated Tillis for being one of two Republican senators who voted on Saturday night against advancing the massive bill.

The Republican president accused Tillis of seeking publicity with his “no” vote and threatened to campaign against him. The Republican president also accused Tillis off doing nothing to help his constituents after last year’s devastating floods.

“Tillis is a talker and complainer, NOT A DOER,” Trump wrote.

Tillis rose to prominence in North Carolina when, as a second-term state House member, he quit his IBM consultant job and led the GOP’s recruitment and fundraising efforts in the chamber for the 2010 elections. Republicans won majorities in the House and Senate for the first time in 140 years.

Tillis was later elected as state House speaker and helped enact conservative policies on taxes, gun rights, regulations and abortion while serving in the role for four years. He also helped push a state constitutional referendum to ban gay marriage, which was approved by voters in 2012 but was ultimately struck down by the courts as unconstitutional.

In 2014, Tillis helped flip control of the U.S. Senate to the GOP after narrowly defeating Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan.

Hagan had a massive stroke from Powassan disease which left her paralyzed. She passed away in 2019 at the age of 66.

A $4,000,000,000,000 Beautiful Bill Advances! One More Road To Cross!

Watching our country decline with Donald J. Trump as our president.

Y'all voted for this.

A civil war is coming.

World War III is happening.

It was reported the U.S. Treasury and the White House have restriction fences for the possibility of unrest and protest.

President Donald J. Trump wants the bill signed before July 4th. He wants to have another expensive military parade to celebrate the passage of a controversial spending bill he is expected to sign into law.

The Senate passed the bill under reconciliation with the vice president being the tie breaker to advance it.

The Big Beautiful Bill advances to the House once again. It will be reworked by the members before it will be passed and head to the president's desk for signature.

Republicans will pat themselves on the back after passing the largest domestic spending bill for the second Trump administration.

Two Republicans opposed the bill.

Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Rand Paul (R-KY) earned the ire of the president.

Vice President JD Vance became the tie breaker. With the 45 Democrats, two independents and two Republicans opposing the bill, Vance had to break the tie to get it through reconciliation.

This bill barely read by both House and Senate members will change the tax code, strip various safety net programs and loosen regulations on many agencies.

It will offer the No Tax on Tips and Overtime. It seems like a good idea until you realize that companies will cap overtime and make it mandatory that no worker stays over the recommended amount of time. It also doesn't help if servers or assistants are not paid in cash. Credit cards are still a taxable income. The bank fees that former president Joe Biden had capped will return and the bill will certainly rollback the Inflation Reduction Act policies enacted.

The tax code imposed by the first Trump Administration will be permanent.

As it currently stands, the Senate reconciliation bill is likely to add $3.5 to $4.2 trillion to the debt through Fiscal Year (FY) 2034, based on our estimates. The debt impact could rise as high as $4.5 trillion if various rumored adjustments are made. That’s $500 billion to $1.5 trillion more in borrowing than under the House-passed bill and will mean the Senate is likely out of compliance with the House reconciliation instructions.

The bill will offer more military spending for the Defense Department and the apartheid ethnostate of Israel. Unknown if Ukraine will get military aid.

The bill has very large cuts to federal government spending, but it has even greater cuts to taxes. So overall, it’s projected to increase the yearly federal deficit by around $230 billion or 10%. (That’s so large that the global bond market has begun to reassess U.S. bonds, making the national debt even more expensive to keep up interest payments.) The last provision of the bill increases the statutory limit to the national debt by $4 trillion.

Vance swooped in the pass Republican bill.

Some of the biggest cuts are in the low income food assistance program SNAP and medical assistance program Medicaid, in part through cuts and in part by making it harder for Americans to get the assistance.

But about half of those savings to the federal government are offset by increased funding for the military, border barriers (presumably on the border with Mexico), immigration enforcement, and immigration detention facilities, based on the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate.

The biggest change is to taxes: higher for low-income earners and lower for high-income earners. CBO estimated that “household resources,” meaning mostly household income but also federal benefits, would decrease by around 4% for the lowest earners and increase by the same amount for the highest earning households. That includes a higher “SALT” tax deduction, which benefits high income earners in high-tax states, restoring it to roughly how it was before  Trump’s 2017 tax cuts. The tax cuts are the main reason the bill adds to the deficit.

Other changes include repeals of laws and funding for green energy, bans on transgender care (originally limited to minors, then expanded to all people) and abortion. The bill also includes a provision limiting the enforcement of court orders against the government.

Newsom Goes After Fox!

Gavin Newsom is planning a 2028 run. He is planning on fighting Fox.3

California governor Gavin Newsom is suing Fox for $787 million.

He claims the network and its media personalities have slandered him. Newsom is using the successful Dominion Systems claim of intentional misinformation.

He demands Jesse Watters, a controversial Fox personality to apologize for misleading his viewers.

President Donald J. Trump posted on social media claiming that the Democratic governor lied about a conversation he had with him on Saturday.

The president called Newsom on early Saturday morning from Washington, DC.

The time zone difference meant that Newsom got the call in Sacramento late Friday evening. 

Watters claimed that Newsom lied about call and mocked him.

The lawsuit, seeking more than $787 million and filed in Delaware Superior Court, claims that Fox "operates as a propaganda machine for President Trump’s radical right-wing agenda," citing the nearly $800-million settlement the network reached with Dominion Voting Systems in 2023 over its coverage of the 2020 election, which Trump lost.

"By disregarding basic journalistic ethics in favor of malicious propaganda, Fox continues to play a major role in the further erosion of the bedrock principles of informed representative government," the lawsuit states. "Setting the record straight and confronting Fox’s dishonest practices are critical to protecting democracy from being overrun by disinformation and lies."

“Gov. Newsom’s transparent publicity stunt is frivolous and designed to chill free speech critical of him," Fox said in a statement. "We will defend this case vigorously and look forward to it being dismissed."

On June 10, a reporter asked Trump in the Oval Office when he had last spoken with Newsom. Trump replied that it was "a day ago" and that he had called the governor "to tell him, got to do a better job."

On X that same day, Newsom responded: "There was no call. Not even a voicemail."

Newsom told MSNBC on June 8 that the two had spoken late on the night of June 6, then accused Trump of being a “stone-cold liar” over the contents of their conversation.

On air on June 10, Watters claimed that Newsom had lied.

"Why would Newsom lie and claim Trump never called him? Why would he do that?" Watters said, as an on-screen banner read: "Gavin Lied About Trump's Call."

"If Fox News fails to issue a formal retraction and on-air apology, we will proceed with the lawsuit so that a jury can determine Fox News’s culpability and assign a monetary value to its 'blatantly unethical' conduct," the governor's lawyers Michael Teter and Mark Bankson wrote in a letter.

Politico first reported on the lawsuit.

The move by Newsom is in effect a troll of the Trump camp, which has aggressively used the courts to go after the media, law firms, universities and other major institutions as he tests the limits of his office's powers.

The back and forth over whether Trump called Newsom played out on national TV this month as Trump activated U.S. Marines and federalized the National Guard in response to protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in Los Angeles.

Newsom slammed Trump's move in activating troops as escalatory and, despite some images of violence in the city, said existing law enforcement could have handled any violence or destruction without federal interference. He argued that the move was “purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions” and that there was “currently no unmet need.”

Democrats still reeling from the 2024 lost are hoping to win in 2026 and 2028.

It's not gonna be easy. They have a long way to go. So far they are on the wrong track and they are still emboldened to status quo politics. 

Newsom appearing on Fox, The War Room, Charlie Kirk's Poison Factory, Sean "Softball" Hannity's carnival of bullshit and NewsNation will not move Republicans. The Democrats can't get their actions together. They want to be centrists and conservatives.

Newsom is still supportive of Israel. He continues to repeat the same mistakes that cost Joe Biden and Kamala Harris their election chances.

He must prove to America that he is different from what the junk food media portrayed him as.

The Lady, The Lawnchair And Interstate 45!

When you thought you've seen everything.

A woman pulls out the lawn chair and sits on a stretch of the busiest interstate in Houston, Texas. By the way, the was using her Second Amendment rights while at it.

The dangerous situation in Houston led to a five hour standoff.

In Houston, TX today! There was a little old lady sitting in the middle of the freeway with a pew pew❕😳

The elderly woman was just chilling in a lawn chair with her pew pew, right smack in the middle of Interstate 45 this afternoon.

HPD said it began with a car crash, as the… pic.twitter.com/0RUxu1UbBT

— Mary 🤦🏼‍♀️🇺🇸 (@Mary_McMuffin) June 27, 2025

🚨INTERSTATE 45 STANDOFF IN HARRIS COUNTY🚨
Updated at 2:30 p.m. - There is an ongoing standoff on I-45 in the Spring area with an armed woman who is in the middle of the highway. The entire interstate is closed at this time. Monitor Houston news outlets for updates on this… pic.twitter.com/0Qs6e7jL00

— 🚨 Rusty Surette (@KBTXRusty) June 26, 2025

🚨#Breaking
Armed Woman in Lawn Chair Shuts Down I-45 in Houston, Authorities Respond**

The FBI, local police, and other agencies are responding to a situation on Interstate 45 in Harris County, Houston, Texas, where a woman, armed and seated in a lawn chair, is blocking the… pic.twitter.com/Us8OaPUMlC

— John (@JohnnyCali_) June 26, 2025

Peaceful resolution to the stand off on 45. Great job by our mental health units talking the female into a peaceful surrender. All agencies and units acted with professionalism and dignity. The interstate will begin to open back up and roads will be back to normal soon pic.twitter.com/D7VXJoSLXS

— Captain Steve Wilson (@HCSO_D1Patrol) June 26, 2025

The Harris County Sheriff and Houston Police confirm the woman was taken into custody without a bullet being fired. She is being treated at a local hospital.

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You can get help if you, a loved one or friend is dealing with drug abuse.

SAMHSA’s National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357)

SAMHSA’s National Helpline is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders.

The incident began around Cypresswood Drive in the southbound lanes of the North Freeway, where deputies responded to reports of a crash involving a woman allegedly carrying a firearm.

According to Precinct 4, the woman crashed into another vehicle, was later pulled over, and then refused officers' commands. She reportedly pulled out a lawn chair, sat down in the roadway, and held a gun to her head, prompting a full-scale emergency response.

Negotiators were brought in and began speaking with the woman. Officials said a family member was called to the scene in an effort to help resolve the situation. By 3 p.m., the standoff was ongoing.

Major traffic disruptions followed, with both northbound and southbound lanes of I-45 shut down near the scene. Houston TranStar footage confirmed the full freeway closure.

Walter Scott Of The Whispers Passed Away!

Walter Scott (center left) of the Whispers has passed away from cancer.

The frontman for the legendary funk and R&B group The Whispers has passed away. Walter Scott has passed away at the age of 81. He had Stage IV stomach cancer.

Growing up an 80s kid, my parents listened to their songs. 

The Whispers had an impact on the Grand Theft Auto franchise. The GTA series Vice City has several of their songs.

The Whispers are an American vocal group from Los Angeles, California. Scoring hit records since the late 1960s, they are best known for their two number-one R&B singles, "And the Beat Goes On" in 1979 and "Rock Steady" in 1987. The Whispers scored 15 top-ten R&B singles, and 8 top-ten R&B albums with two of them, The Whispers and Love Is Where You Find It, reaching the No. 1 spot.

They have earned two platinum and five gold albums by the RIAA.

The Whispers formed in 1963 in Watts, California. The original members included identical twin brothers Wallace "Scotty" and Walter Scott, along with Gordy Harmon, Marcus Hutson, and Nicholas Caldwell. After being invited to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1966 by Sly Stone, the group relocated to that area where they began developing a reputation as a show-stopping live act. Walter Scott was drafted to serve in the Vietnam War during that period for eighteen months, returning to the group in 1969 after discharge. After Harmon injured his larynx in a driving accident in 1973, he was replaced by former Friends of Distinction member Leaveil Degree.

After a series of singles on Los Angeles label, Dore,[4] the group signed to a small L.A. label, Soul Clock, run by producer Ron Carson, who was responsible for their breakthrough hit, "Seems Like I Got to Do Wrong" in 1970. Moving to the larger New York-based Janus label, they continued to be produced by Carson, before he sold all of his recordings to Janus with the group then recording mainly in Philadelphia in the mid-1970s.

In 1978, the group signed to Dick Griffey's SOLAR Records. They hit No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1979-80 with "And the Beat Goes On" / "Can You Do the Boogie" / "Out the Box". In the UK, "And the Beat Goes On" peaked at No. 2 and "It's a Love Thing" became their second top 10 in 1981 peaking at No. 9.

In 1987, their song "Rock Steady" reached No. 7 on the US Billboard Hot 100, No. 10 on the US Cash Box Top 100 and No. 1 on the R&B chart.

The Whispers later established their own production company, Satin Tie Productions, through which they released their independent 2006 album For Your Ears Only.

The group opened Game 2 of the 1989 World Series at Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum with their rendition of the National Anthem.

Marcus Hutson left the group in 1992 due to prostate cancer. According to the Whispers' website, when Hutson succumbed to it on May 23, 2000, they vowed to never replace him, and started performing as a quartet.

Jerry McNeil resigned from his position as the keyboardist in the latter part of 1993 in order to spend more time with his family.

In 2014, the Whispers were inducted into the National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame.

The Philadelphia soul songwriter team Allan Felder, Norman Harris, Bunny Sigler, and Ronnie Baker provided several of the Whispers' songs, including "A Mother for My Children" and "Bingo".

Nicholas Caldwell died of congestive heart failure at his San Francisco home, on January 5, 2016, at the age of 71.

Founding member Gordy Harmon died at his home in Los Angeles on January 5, 2023, at the age of 79.

America In Decline: SCOTUS Is Now Your Damn Nanny!

The Supreme Court will once again set the stage for another ugly civil war in the United States.

From reading books on LGBTQ Americans to adult entertainment, the Supreme Court ruled in the favor of the white people who have nothing better to do with their pathetic lives.

A civil war is coming.

There will be a violent uprising in the United States again. Trust me, I see it coming.

It first starts with Americans refusing to pay their taxes.

Then the government starts cracking down on dissent and free speech.

The government becomes unison in conflicts which involve regime change and unprecedented war crimes.

Then they start arresting critics, opposing lawmakers and people filming the public.

What Israel and the United States are doing is the inevitable demise of the two.

President Donald J. Trump is definitely a symbol of decline.

Religion is the cause of war, hate, instability, inequality and division.

If the world never believed in religion, the planet would likely advance in the future.

John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanagh, Sonia Sotomayor, Elana Kagan and Kentaji Brown Jackson are out of touch with the public.

President Donald J. Trump has a job approval of 36%.

Vice President JD Vance has a job approval of 45%.

The Supreme Court has a job approval of 24%.

Congress has a job approval of 22%.

Republicans are favored 42%.

Democrats are favored 39%.

Americans believe we are on the wrong track. 

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law aimed at restricting young people’s access to pornographic content online.

The justices in a 6-3 vote rejected a challenge brought by a pornography interest group called the Free Speech Coalition that said the measure violates the free speech rights of adults who want to access the content.

The law requires users of websites that host adult content to verify their age before they can access it. This requires the operator to view a government-issued identification, such as a driver’s license.

The law "simply requires established verification methods already in use by pornographic sites and other industries," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority.

It also "advances the state's important interest in shielding children from sexually explicit material," he added.

The challengers argued the law violates the Constitution’s First Amendment because it places a “content-based burden” on adults’ access to speech.

They cited a 2004 Supreme Court ruling that found a federal law also aimed at restricting access to pornography, called the Child Online Protection Act, was most likely unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court is now a fucking big government nanny.

This can seriously be the end of Fansly, OnlyFans, XVideo, XHamster, PornHub and every platform that caters to adult entertainment. This decision should be in the hands of parents not some fucking bureaucrat or an out of touch jurist. 

The John Roberts Court will have a few victories for progress but overall, it will be ranked one of the worst. This court will be ranked as bad as the Roger Taney Court.

A federal judge had ruled that the provision at issue was problematic because it did not merely restrict access to minors.

The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals then ruled for Texas and refused to put its ruling on hold pending further review.

As a result of that ruling, some online pornography platforms, including Pornhub, prevented people in Texas from accessing their sites out of concern about the provision’s going into effect.

The Supreme Court in April 2024 declined to block the law while the case continued.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law restricting gender transition care for minors, delivering a major blow to transgender rights.

The 6-3 ruling is likely to have a broad impact as 24 other states have already enacted laws similar to the one in Tennessee, which bars gender transition surgery, puberty blockers and hormone therapy for youth.

Those laws now look set to survive similar legal challenges. The ruling does not affect states that do not have such bans, meaning care in those states will still be available.

The court was divided on ideological lines, with the six conservatives in the majority and the three liberals in dissent.

Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts concluded that the Tennessee law does not constitute a form of sex discrimination that would violate the Constitution's 14th Amendment.

"This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field," Roberts wrote. "The voices in these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are profound."

"The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements," he added.

Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion that contrary to the majority's conclusion, the law does discriminate based on both sex and transgender status and should therefore be analyzed closely.

"By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims," she wrote. "In sadness, I dissent."

Sotomayor also took the relatively unusual step of reading a summary of her decision from the bench in court, saying the impact of the decision is "incredibly dangerous."

Trans rights activists have warned that a ruling allowing bans on care for trans minors could pave the way for similar restrictions aimed at adults.

"Today's ruling is a devastating loss for transgender people, our families, and everyone who cares about the Constitution," Chase Strangio, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who represents the challengers, said in a statement.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti welcomed the decision as a win for "common sense over judicial activism."

He added that legislators should give "careful scrutiny" before allowing such treatments, making judgments "based on science, not ideology."

The legal challenge was brought by the administration of former President Joe Biden, as well as transgender teens and their families.

Can't wait until these Republican lawmakers get outed by adult entertainers, women or transgender sex workers.

The ruling does not resolve all legal issues relating to the state bans, as it did not address a separate argument under the 14th Amendment that the laws violate the right of parents to make health care decisions for their children.

The court also did not rule on the question of whether laws that discriminate against transgender people are subject to what is called "heightened scrutiny," meaning that judges should review them with a skeptical eye. But three of the conservative justices said transgender people are not a "suspect class," meaning laws targeting them should not receive heightened scrutiny.

Other issues involving transgender rights, such as laws blocking transgender girls from participating in sports, are likely to reach the court in due course.

Upon taking office in January, President Donald Trump has set about unwinding Biden policies that sought to bolster transgender rights. Among other things, he signed an executive order seeking to restrict gender-affirming care for teenagers nationwide. A judge quickly blocked it.

Trump has also imposed new restrictions on transgender people serving in the military.

"President Trump will continue to speak out and take action to protect innocent American children from these barbaric procedures that are based on junk science," White House spokeswoman Liz Huston said in a statement praising the ruling.

Enacted in 2023, the Tennessee law is among a wave of similar measures taken by states imposing restrictions on gender transition treatments. In defending its ban, the state's lawyers pointed to similar measures taken in other countries, including in Europe.

Skrmetti emphasized in court papers the evolving debate over how best to treat minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the clinical term given to the distress people can experience when their gender identities are in conflict with the genders assigned to them at birth.

Major medical organizations say gender-affirming treatments are an effective way to treat gender dysphoria.

"Let us be clear — healthcare bans of any kind are rooted in stigma, misinformation, and fear and this one comes at the expense of the youth in need of this care," the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and its United States affiliate, said in a statement.

The challengers argued that the law is a form of sex discrimination that violates the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause because the treatments at issue in the case — puberty blockers and hormone therapy — can be used in other situations.

The case marks the most significant ruling on transgender rights since the court in 2020, to the surprise of many, ruled that federal employment protections extend to gender identity, as well as sexual orientation.

The dispute reached the Supreme Court after the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2023 rejected challenges to the Tennessee law and a similar measure in Kentucky.

A district court judge had blocked parts of the law, while concluding that the plaintiffs did not have legal standing to challenge the surgery ban. That provision of the law was not at issue before the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court on Friday bolstered religious rights as it ruled in favor of parents who objected to LGBTQ-themed books that a Maryland county approved for use in elementary school classrooms.

In a 6-3 vote, the court backed the parents' claim that the Montgomery County Board of Education's decision not to allow an opt-out option for their children violated their religious rights under the Constitution's First Amendment, which protects religious expression.

"The board's introduction of the 'LGBTQ+ inclusive' storybooks, along with its decision to withhold opt-outs, places an unconstitutional burden on the parents' rights to the free exercise of their religion," Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the court.

The Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority that is often receptive to religious claims. The liberal justices dissented.

"The result will be chaos for this nation's public schools," liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion.

"Given the great diversity of religious beliefs in this country, countless interactions that occur every day in public schools might expose children to messages that conflict with a parents' beliefs," she added.

The dispute arose in 2022 when the school board in the diverse county just outside Washington revised its English language arts curriculum.

The board determined that it wanted more storybooks to feature LGBTQ elements to better reflect some of the families who live in the area.

Approved books include “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” which features a gay character who is getting married, and “Born Ready,” about a transgender child who wants to identify as a boy.

The school board said that although the books are in classrooms and available for children to pick up, teachers are not required to use them in class.

Initially the school board indicated that parents would be able to opt their children out of exposure to the books, but it quickly changed course, suggesting that would be too difficult to implement.

Plaintiffs include Tamer Mahmoud and Enas Barakat, a Muslim couple who have a son in elementary school. Members of the Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox churches also sued, as did a parent group called Kids First that has members of various faiths.

They said they had a right to protect their children from being taught content that conflicts with their religious beliefs by expressing support for same-sex relationships and transgender rights.

The Trump administration backed the challengers.

A federal judge and the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals both ruled in favor of the school board.

The Supreme Court has in the past backed religious rights in cases involving conflicting arguments made by LGBTQ rights advocates. In one recent ruling, the court in 2023 ruled in favor of a Christian web designer who refused to work on same-sex weddings.

America In Decline: SCOTUS Sides With Trump On Birthright Citizenship!

You're out of touch. You're out of mind.

Civil war.

There will be a violent uprising in the United States again. Trust me. I see it coming.

It first starts with Americans refusing to pay their taxes.

Then the government starts cracking down on dissent and free speech.

The government becomes unison in conflicts which involve regime change and unprecedented war crimes.

Then they start arresting critics, opposing lawmakers and people filming the public.

What Israel and the United States are doing is the inevitable demise of the two.

President Donald J. Trump is definitely a symbol of decline.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of the Trump Administration when it comes to birthright citizenship. That means if any foreign national gives birth on U.S. soil (i.e. state, territory or military base) it assures their child's fate is uncertain.

The Roberts Court is an out of touch, elitist and clearly radical. Its jurisprudence will be regarded as another stain on America's decline.

The Supreme Court has six members who live in the past ruling on transgressions that not only setback our country but further declines our reputation as the world's "superpower."

The right and some on the left can complain about other countries doing terrible things while taking selves in the mirror. Every accusation is a confession now.

What Iranians are doing is really what the United States is doing.

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to take steps to implement its proposal to end automatic birthright citizenship, handing a major win to the government.

The court granted a request by the Trump administration to narrow the scope of nationwide injunctions imposed by judges so that they apply only to states, groups and individuals that sued. That means the birthright citizenship proposal can likely move forward at least in part in the states that challenged it as well as those that did not.

The court was divided on ideological lines, with conservatives in the majority and liberals in dissent.

"When a court concludes that the executive branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power, too," Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the majority.

But she indicated that the nationwide injunctions are limited "only to the extent that the injunctions are broader than necessary."

Lower courts, she added "shall move expeditiously" to figure out how broad the injunctions can be.

In dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that the decision was "an existential threat to the rule of law."

Fellow liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor read a summary of her dissent from the bench in the courtroom.

"No right is safe in the new legal regime the court creates," she wrote.

The policy remains blocked for now in one additional state, New Hampshire, as a result of a separate lawsuit that is not before the Supreme Court.

As a result, the proposal can can possibly forward nationwide, although individual plaintiffs could still file their own lawsuits in those states and the current challengers can still move to reinstate injunctions that are less broad in scope. Trump's original executive order said the plan would go into effect after 30 days, but it was almost immediately blocked.

The decision does not address the legal merits of the plan, but only whether judges had the authority to put it on hold across the entire country. President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies have been harshly critical of judges who have blocked aspects of his agenda, although it is not a new phenomenon for courts to impose nationwide injunctions.

It has long been widely accepted, including by legal scholars on left and right, that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment confers automatic citizenship to almost anyone born in the United States.

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States,” the amendment says. Based on historical practice, the only exception is people who are the children of diplomats.

Trump wants to adopt a completely new meaning of the language that would confer citizenship only on those who have at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

Trump’s executive order, issued on his first day in office in January, was immediately challenged, and every court that has ruled on the proposal so far has blocked it. At issue at the Supreme Court were cases filed in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington state.

In court papers, former acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris said judges did not have the authority to issue nationwide injunctions and that the states that sued did not have legal standing.

The Trump plan has the backing of 21 other states.

The administration has complained bitterly as judges have issued nationwide injunctions in response to Trump’s bold and aggressive use of executive power to implement his contentious agenda, which has included ramping up deportations, downsizing federal agencies, targeting law firms and universities, and firing thousands of federal employees.

Justice Department officials say there have been dozens such rulings and have described them as being an unconstitutional attack on the president’s authority. Previous administrations, both Republican and Democratic, have also had their agenda’s threatened by nationwide injunctions, although they have become more commonplace in recent years.

I Got Your Back!

Criminals stick together.

So kids, here's the thing.

WHITE PRIVILEGE IS REAL! IT'S "SUIT AND TIE" WHITE SUPREMACY ON TELEVISION, RADIO, THE INTERNET AND AMERICAN POLICY!

FOR EVERY BAD COP, THERE WILL BE A DEAD COP!

IF THE UNITED STATES CONTINUES TO AID ISRAEL, THE WORLD WILL BOYCOTT THE U.S. AND ABANDON THE DOLLAR!

I DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET OR THE COP'S VERSION.

THERE IS NO GOD!

GOD IS NOT FIXING THIS!

FUCK YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS!

Trump gave us open season.

Netanyahu has an active warrant for crimes against humanity. The International Criminal Court has issued the warrant.

Netanyahu continues to be allowed entry in the U.S. since it doesn't recognize the ICC as a legitimate court. Most countries recognize the court. Only genocidal countries like Belarus, Israel, Russia, India and the United States ignore the rule of law.

World War III.

A possible Civil War in the United States and the apartheid ethnostate of Israel.

Pick your poison.

The United States had engaged in a conflict with Iran at the behest of Israel.

Iran is 

The 45th/47th President of the United States has called for the dismissal of corruption charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The corruption trial is the reasons why Netanyahu started a regional conflict with the Middle East. He is currently doing a genocide in Gaza, an ethnic cleansing and illegal expansions. He is wanted by the International Criminal Court.

He is at risk of being arrested if he appears in a sovereign state.

Netanyahu is pretty much isolated in Israel. He is boldly travels to the United States and Greece. He knows he is act risk of being either assassinated or arrested.

Trump branded this long-running corruption trial a “witch hunt” and called for it to be canceled.

“Such a WITCH HUNT, for a man who has given so much, is unthinkable to me,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday. He added that he had just learned Netanyahu had been “summoned to court on Monday,” in the case, which began in 2020.

“He deserves much better than this, and so does the State of Israel. Bibi Netanyahu’s trial should be CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero,” Trump added.

Netanyahu is facing charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate cases.

Prosecutors have alleged that he exchanged regulatory favors with media owners in Israel seeking positive press coverage.

He has also been accused of accepting gifts — including cigars and champagne — in exchange for advancing the personal interests of Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan and Australian billionaire James Packer. Prosecutors say these were worth hundreds of thousands of shekels.

Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister and the first sitting Israeli leader to have taken the stand as a criminal defendant, has roundly denied the allegations, similarly branding them a “witch hunt.”

A verdict isn’t expected until 2026 at the earliest, while Netanyahu will also have the option to appeal to the Supreme Court.

One of Netanyahu's main rivals, opposition leader Yair Lapid, criticized Trump's decision to weigh in on the proceedings. “With all due respect and gratitude to the president of the United States, he’s not supposed to intervene in a legal process of an independent state," he told the Israeli news website Ynet on Wednesday.

Netanyahu's supporters, meanwhile, welcomed Trump’s comments. In a post on X, he said it was “time to put an end to this outrageous injustice and personal persecution — and cancel this absurd trial once and for all.”

Trump's supportive comments struck a different tone from just a day before when he admonished both Israel and Iran. He accused them of violating a ceasefire shortly after it was agreed to bring an end to 12 days of fighting between the Middle East rivals which began when Israeli forces first launched strikes targeting Iran's nuclear program June 13.

After getting off to a rocky start, the ceasefire was swiftly re-established after both nations launched strikes on each other early Tuesday, drawing rebuke from Trump. It remained in affect early Thursday.

Netanyahu has faced repeated allegations throughout Israel's war in the Gaza Strip that he is delaying an end to the conflict to stall the corruption trial. He has cited the war and security concerns as his reasons for asking for the proceedings to be postponed.

Hundreds of people have been killed in the enclave since mid-March when a brief two-month ceasefire came to an end.

Israel launched its offensive in Gaza after the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage, according to Israeli officials, marking a major escalation in a decadeslong conflict.

Since then, more than 56,000 people, including thousands of children, have been killed in Israel's military assault, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in the enclave.

Bill Moyers Passed Away!

Bill Moyers was one of the good progressive media personalities who doesn't resort to boombastic journalism.

Longtime progressive agitator and former press secretary for Lyndon B. Johnson has passed away at the age of 91. 

Moyers became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died Thursday at age 91.

Moyers died in a New York City hospital, according to longtime friend Tom Johnson, the former CEO of CNN and an assistant to Moyers during Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration. Moyers’ son William said his father died at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York after a “long illness.”

Moyers’ career ranged from youthful Baptist minister to deputy director of the Peace Corps, from Johnson’s press secretary to newspaper publisher, senior news analyst for “The CBS Evening News” and chief correspondent for “CBS Reports.”

But it was for public television that Moyers produced some of TV’s most cerebral and provocative series. In hundreds of hours of PBS programs, he proved at home with subjects ranging from government corruption to modern dance, from drug addiction to media consolidation, from religion to environmental abuse.

In 1988, Moyers produced “The Secret Government” about the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration and simultaneously published a book under the same name. Around that time, he galvanized viewers with “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth,” a series of six one-hour interviews with the prominent religious scholar. The accompanying book became a best-seller.

His televised chats with poet Robert Bly almost single-handedly launched the 1990s Men’s Movement, and his 1993 series “Healing and the Mind” had a profound impact on the medical community and on medical education.

In a medium that supposedly abhors “talking heads” — shots of subject and interviewer talking — Moyers came to specialize in just that. He once explained why: “The question is, are the talking heads thinking minds and thinking people? Are they interesting to watch? I think the most fascinating production value is the human face.”

(Softly) speaking truth to power

Demonstrating what someone called “a soft, probing style” in the native Texas accent he never lost, Moyers was a humanist who investigated the world with a calm, reasoned perspective, whatever the subject.

From some quarters, he was blasted as a liberal thanks to his links with Johnson and public television, as well as his no-holds-barred approach to investigative journalism. It was a label he didn’t necessarily deny.

“I’m an old-fashion liberal when it comes to being open and being interested in other people’s ideas,” he said during a 2004 radio interview. But Moyers preferred to term himself a “citizen journalist” operating independently, outside the establishment.

Public television (and his self-financed production company) gave him free rein to throw “the conversation of democracy open to all comers,” he said in a 2007 interview with The Associated Press.

From sports to sports writing

Born in Hugo, Oklahoma, on June 5, 1934, Billy Don Moyers was the son of a dirt farmer-truck driver who soon moved his family to Marshall, Texas. High school led him into journalism.

“I wanted to play football, but I was too small. But I found that by writing sports in the school newspaper, the players were always waiting around at the newsstand to see what I wrote,” he recalled.

He worked for the Marshall News Messenger at age 16. Deciding that Bill Moyers was a more appropriate byline for a sportswriter, he dropped the “y” from his name.

He graduated from the University of Texas and earned a master’s in divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He was ordained and preached part time at two churches but later decided his call to the ministry “was a wrong number.”

His relationship with Johnson began when he was in college; he wrote the then-senator offering to work in his 1954 re-election campaign. Johnson was impressed and hired him for a summer job. He was back in Johnson’s employ as a personal assistant in the early 1960s and for two years, he worked at the Peace Corps, eventually becoming deputy director.

On the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Moyers was in Austin helping with the presidential trip. He flew back to Washington on Air Force One with newly sworn-in President Johnson, for whom he held various jobs over the ensuing years, including press secretary.

Moyers’ stint as presidential press secretary was marked by efforts to mend the deteriorating relationship between Johnson and the media. But the Vietnam war took its toll and Moyers resigned in December 1966.

Of his departure from the White House, he wrote later, “We had become a war government, not a reform government, and there was no creative role left for me under those circumstances.”

He conceded that he may have been “too zealous in my defense of our policies” and said he regretted criticizing journalists such as Pulitzer Prize-winner Peter Arnett, then a special correspondent with the AP, and CBS’s Morley Safer for their war coverage.

A long run on television

In 1967, Moyers became publisher of Long Island-based Newsday and concentrated on adding news analyses, investigative pieces and lively features. Within three years, the suburban daily had won two Pulitzers. He left the paper in 1970 after the ownership changed. That summer, he traveled 13,000 miles around the country and wrote a best-selling account of his odyssey: “Listening to America: a Traveler Rediscovers His Country.”

His next venture was in public television and he won critical acclaim for “Bill Moyers Journal,” a series in which interviews ranged from Gunnar Myrdal, the Swedish economist, to poet Maya Angelou. He was chief correspondent of “CBS Reports” from 1976 to 1978, went back to PBS for three years, and then was senior news analyst for CBS from 1981 to 1986.

When CBS cut back on documentaries, he returned to PBS for much less money. “If you have a skill that you can fold with your tent and go wherever you feel you have to go, you can follow your heart’s desire,” he once said.

Then in 1986, he and his wife, Judith Davidson Moyers, became their own bosses by forming Public Affairs Television, an independent shop that has not only produced programs such as the 10-hour “In Search of the Constitution,” but also paid for them through its own fundraising efforts.

His projects in the 21st century included “Now,” a weekly PBS public affairs program; a new edition of “Bill Moyers Journal” and a podcast covering racism, voting rights and the rise of Donald Trump, among other subjects.

Moyers married Judith Davidson, a college classmate, in 1954, and they raised three children, among them the author Suzanne Moyers and author-TV producer William Cope Moyers. Judith eventually became her husband’s partner, creative collaborator and president of their production company.

Ex-Warren, Michigan Cop Wants To Justify Killing Two By Claiming They Were Drunk!

Who's on trial? Is it the suspect or the victims?

What angers me more than everything is the fact that some on social media actually justify the criminal acts done by law enforcement?

We are going to see more Rodney Hintons.

White extremists seriously believe that the police looking for criminals have justification to commit traffic offenses. They claim that the victims should have adhere to the police vehicle regardless. 

No one is seeing that a vehicle traveling over 100 mph can travel two football fields in less than 20 seconds.

A Warren, Michigan officer is facing vehicular manslaughter after killing two men when he was driving his patrol vehicle at an excess over 100 mph.

The junk food media is following the trial of James Burke. The former officer is trying to justify his crime by pointing out that the victims were allegedly drinking and driving.

The driver Cedric Hayden Jr., 34 and his passenger Dejuan Pettis, 33 turned into the path of Burke. Before the collision, Burke was well over 100 mph.

Relatives and supporters of the men shook their heads when Sheriff's Deputy Joseph Bosek testified on Monday, June 23, about the speeds the police-owned Ford Explorer was traveling before and when it collided with a Dodge Durango the men were riding in.

Former Warren police officer is trying to use a loophole to escape vehicular manslaughter charges.

Burke, 29 is charged with two counts of homicide-manslaughter with a motor vehicle, a felony, and two misdemeanor charges, a moving violation causing serious impairment of bodily function and public officer−willful neglect of duty in the Sept. 30 crash. Burke was terminated by Warren police after he was criminally charged, his attorney, Marc Curtis, said after the hearing.

The sheriff's office indicated the police's oncoming SUV slammed into the Durango as it turned left from Schoenherr Road onto Prospect Avenue about 5 a.m. Fieger Law — the firm representing the men's families — released what it indicated were three new videos taken prior to and during the violent collision between the two vehicles.

Burke's 34-year-old partner was hurt in the crash, but has not faced any charges.

Burke said little during the exam except to answer "Yes," your honor" to questions Chmura posed to him.

The sheriff's office previously indicated the Warren officers were responding to a Flock camera hit on a stolen, black Jeep Cherokee out of Sterling Heights that was traveling southbound on Schoenherr at 10 Mile. There allegedly were two stolen firearms in the Cherokee, the sheriff's office spokesperson previously said. She previously said there was no "pursuit," but the officers were responding to a be-on-the-lookout.

The victims were not suspects. 

The defense is going to use the driver's influence on alcohol to say that he failed to notice a high speeding police cruiser without lights or siren. Burke will claim that he was on a search and pursue.

We Have To Clean House Within The Democratic Party To Win Again!

New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor. His win shook the Democrats. A time for a reckoning when it comes to ineffective Democrats. If they continue to back Israel, prepare for more Zohran-like candidates.

Why the Democratic Party is its own worst enemy?

The Democrats continue to be the party of the status quo. Democratic voters who are progressive have become tired of paying for high rent. They are tired of hearing promises but continued failure. They want a future where you shouldn't be bankrupt through a medical bill. They want a future where religion isn't a litmus test to why a person should run for office. They want a future where our lawmakers aren't in unison of sympathy for a foreign country.

They want the Democratic Party to stop being conservatives.

Maybe there should be a serious third party where candidates can run on a platform.

The Democrats can't be the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" or No Matter What." 

The Democrats should have a strong message.

"REBUILD THE COUNTRY FROM THE BOTTOM UP!"

"IF YOU WANT MOVEMENT WE MUST PROVIDE MOVEMENT!"

"WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF US?"

These are some of the things I hope to get to the Democratic Party. Alas, they do not listen to me.

Last year, I got a call from a Democratic-aligned focus group asking me about then Ohio senator Sherrod Brown, former president Joe Biden and the Democratic Party in general.

They asked me how I feel and would I vote in the general. I told them of course I am going to vote in the 2024 election. But I am very disappointed with the president and the senator for supporting Israel. I directly stated that if Biden didn't end his support of Israel, he could lose.

Well here we are.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is an ineffective House Minority Leader. He cannot get the party on board when it comes to fighting Trump and ending support for Israel.

Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic Party nomination for mayor of New York City and these establishment folks continue to denounce the win.

It's the lack of self reflection.

When Democratic voters supported a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza, former president Joe Biden and former vice president Kamala Harris ignore the concerns.

When Democratic voters said that age was an issue when it comes to Biden, the former president ignore them. The former president did not put up a fight and pretty much sold us out.

Progressives demanded a fight and what we got was a sacrificial goat.

I wanted Harris to win. But her support of Israel, her refusal to distance herself from Biden, her inability to listen to a person who lived in Palestine and the big money donors. It was a total let down. I almost wanted to stop blogging.

But then I realized that Trump and Vice President JD Vance are the perfect example of the United States in decline. I want to live to see our country take a nasty fall. 

Independent senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is ineffective. He continues to do rallies to keep the progressive base engaged but fails to deliver on policies. He will not outright call for an end to the apartheid ethnostate of Israel.

The party that wants to deliver on worker's rights, affordable childcare,women's rights, police reform and affordable healthcare were dealt blows by the Supreme Court and the Republican state legislature.

We allowed it to happen because we allowed Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema and John Fetterman's refusal to end cloture and vote by simple majority. They slowed down so much and Biden's legacy will be tarnished because of the genocide.

Mamdani is destroying the establishment. He paid attention to the economic needs of New Yorkers. He didn't shame or push celebrity endorsements like Harris, Biden or even Trump. 

He literally sees the concerns to why Harris failed. Trump lied about lowering the prices and ending the war. He is still full steam ahead on a war with Iran, continuing the Gaza genocide and removing immigrants despite most of them being law abiding. A lot of his voters are betrayed.

Pay attention to economic needs and stop insulting our intelligence.

Zohran Mamdani, let's win this.