President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama and President Donald J. Trump have headaches. The headaches are Republican lawmakers hell bent on driving the country into the ground. The Republicans love war, austerity, culture wars and giveaways to the elite.
Y'all voted for this.
Guess what?
Y'all gonna feel this, big time!
Americans blame Republicans for the latest political crisis. This latest government shutdown is different. Many Americans who rely on the federal government are now fucked. Given the uncertainty with the economy, Americans view the Golden Age of Trump to be a bunch of bullshit.
Republicans want to shed off the Affordable Care Act. The damn law was passed over 15 years ago. They vowed to repeal and replace Obamacare. Under a budget reconciliation, the Big Beautiful Bill was passed.
The law will take affect in 2027 but funding for the 2025-26 fiscal year must happen.
Since Trump’s first chaotic term, Republicans have passed short term bills to keep the federal government open. Even with President Joe Biden, Republicans have nearly shutdown the government.
EVERY FREAKING TIME. The Republicans forced a short term budget for the fiscal year. They keep pushing for federal cuts to the safety net to keep the 2017 Jobs and Tax Cuts Act permanent.
The tax code is so fucked up.
The continuation of military and financial aid to Israel is fucked up. Israel gets $3.8 billion with additional funds every year. It has to end.
Republicans also delayed the swearing in of Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) because she vowed to release the Epstein files. The Democrats are not accepting these things.
Republicans are blamed once again for the chaos in Washington, DC.
Democrats facing a civil war within their own party are demanding an end to support of Israel. They demand Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer stop being a bunch of pussies.
The Democrats demand that Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Tim Walz, Pete Buttigieg and any 2028 potential candidate stop backing Israel.
The Democrats want an end to Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillabrand, John Fetterman, Ritchie Torres, Wesley Bell and any AIPAC backed candidates. They are tired of Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema and Fetterman stalling progressive agendas and siding with Republicans.
Democrats want a fight.
Republicans resort to dog whistles yet again. They claim the Democrats want to keep the government closed because they "want to give free health care to illegal immigrants."
This is Hamas all over again for me. You say it so many times, hoping this will stick in the minds of voters. In reality, we are the only country in the world where if you get a medical bill, it could bankrupt you.
White elites can travel to Mexico, Canada, China or other nations to get affordable health care.
The rest of us, work. We fear that a medical emergency could put us in debt or make us homeless. Those who can't afford insurance still get medical treatment and we the taxpayer foot the bill.
We should have the federal government pay for healthcare coverage. Instead of funding wars and a fucking genocide, the federal government could help its citizens.
Republicans adjourned until Oct. 13. So to inflict more pain on federal workers and constituents, Congress takes off for vacation for the Columbus Day (Indigenous Honor). They will also return to honor white nationalist Charlie Kirk's birthday (George Floyd honorary birthday).
A Washington Post poll conducted on Oct. 1, the first day of the shutdown, found that 47% of U.S. adults blame Trump and Republicans in Congress, while 30% blame Democrats and 23% said they're not sure.
The survey found that independents blamed Trump and Republicans over Democrats by a wide margin of 50% to 22%. And one-third of Republicans were either unsure who to blame (25%) or blamed their party (8%).
A New York Times/Siena poll taken in late September found that blaming both sides equally for a shutdown was the most popular answer, chosen by 33% of registered voters. Another 26% would blame Trump and Republicans, while 19% would blame Democrats, and 21% said they hadn't heard enough to say.
A poll by Marist, PBS News and NPR in late September found that 38% would blame Republicans, while 27% said they'd blame Democrats. Another 31% said they'd blame both parties equally, and 5% said they'd blame neither or were unsure who was at fault.
The Golden Age. Endless chaos in the United States by a former reality television star turned politician.
In a Morning Consult poll taken in late September, 45% of registered voters said they'd blame Republicans in Congress for a shutdown, while 32% said they'd blame Democrats. Another 16% had no opinion, while 7% chose "other." Independents blamed Republicans over Democrats by a margin of 41% to 24%.
The shutdown began at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 1 after Congress and Trump failed to reach a deal to fund the government. Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress, but they need 60 votes in the Senate to pass a funding bill, and they only control 53 seats. That means they need Democratic votes on any measure to reopen the government.
In exchange for their votes, Democrats have demanded an extension of expiring Affordable Care Act funds, a repeal of the Medicaid cuts and changes in Trump's "big, beautiful bill" and assurances that Trump won't unilaterally withhold money directed by Congress in a government funding law as his administration has done a handful of times in recent months.
Republicans say they won't grant any concessions to Democrats simply to keep the government open. They're willing to negotiate on the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, which will cause health insurance premiums to skyrocket if they are not renewed — but only once the government is funded, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said. Many GOP lawmakers want the subsidies to end entirely, however.
Polling on the health care subsidies is sparse at the moment, but the Washington Post survey found that 71% of U.S. adults want the ACA subsidies to be extended, while 29% said they should expire on schedule at the end of this year.
Both parties appear dug in on the shutdown. A clear majority of poll respondents who want to extend the subsidies said Congress should demand that extension, even if it forces the shutdown to drag on, while a clear majority of those who want the subsidies to expire also wanted their side to stick to that demand, even if it prolongs a shutdown.
Kentucky woman claims an abusive lover tortured her into a sexual act on her service animal.
A Kentucky beautician is in the county lock up after she allegedly did a sexual act on her service dog.
Lisa Marie Wright of Lexington, KY is arrested for either being caught in the act or sharing video of her getting her dog to lick the click.
The 45 year old woman was arrested and charged on Sept. 18 with sexual assault crimes against an animal after a video allegedly showed her "engaging in a sexual act with her dog named Morty."
Lexington-Fayette Animal Care and Control (LFACC) and Lexington Police responded to a report of animal abuse. A video (likely submitted by a witness or discovered digitally) allegedly showed Wright "engaging in a sexual act" with her service dog, named Morty. The exact nature of the act isn't detailed in reports to avoid sensationalism, but it falls under "sexual assault crimes against an animal."
She wasn't caught in public—this was a private incident captured on video, which is how authorities got involved. In a cryptic post, she places the blame on an abusive romantic partner and family member.
The dog, a service animal, is now safe and in LFACC's care; they're emphasizing reporting abuse via their hotline (859-255-9033).
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Hello.
Since this is a domesticated animal, it will be noted that if convicted she could face up to a year in the iron college. She may forbidden from owning domesticated pets.
Again, I am not in the business of knowing what people do behind closed doors.
If you want to engage in this activity, that's your business. However, if you are sharing this to the public it is a crime. You could end up on a sexual offender registry.
I am all for consensual sex and open relationship. I am not here to judge a romantic partner's past life. We lean heavily on judgment of actions instead of causes and how to show empathy.
Performing sex acts on animals is a bridge too far for me.
How to avoid dog attacks.
Never pet dogs if you are not familiar with them. No matter the size or weight, all dogs bite when they feel threatened or territorial.
Never bother dogs when they are eating food, sleeping, nursing their pups or experiencing signs of rabies.
Never allow a dog (aggressive breeds) take your neck, face or chest.
Never run: Running can activate a dog's prey drive, increasing the likelihood of an attack.
Never make direct eye contact. Direct eye contact can be perceived as a threat by dogs.
Growling, baring teeth, stiff body, raised hackles, pinned-back ears, intense staring, or a low, wagging tail (not always friendly). A dog freezing or lunging may be seconds from acting.
If anything, always respect the space of dogs. They can be your friends or your enemies.
Carry pepper spray, a large metal pole, a coin can, a foul smelling spray or if it has to come to the ultimate decision, firearms.
Can we get the Darwin Award for the most stupidest people on the planet?
You can't fix stupid!
You can't change minds!
You are completely trapped in stupid.
You are wrapped and emboldened in stupid.
Again, why do white people always treat wild animals like they're domesticated?
I don't get why some of these people believe it's their mission to disrupt the lives of others.
This is why Republicans are idiots. Democrats are idiots too but at least some of them have the sense to not engage in stupidity. Not saying all Republicans are idiots, but definitely the ones who voted for President Donald J. Trump are.
I've said it before and I stand by what I say: "Wild animals are......well you know!"
Interacting with uncontacted people is dangerous. Well, they are.... you know!"
If you want to be a thrill seeker, you might want to get life insurance.
Reistance against Israel is not terrorism. It is a fight for survival. Hamas said it might accept the terms only if Israel ends the blockade, pull out of Gaza and be held accountable for war crimes.
Do you smell bullshit?
Because it comes out the ass of our president and his best buddy, the prime minister of Israel.
The Israeli prime minister has boldly stated that Palestine will not happen as long as he is alive. He will find some reason to push for chaos in the Middle East.
The Israeli regime is too far gone to end this genocide. They will continue to commit acts of war against their neighbors in an attempt to build the ethnostate of Greater Israel.
President Donald J. Trump announced that the Palestinian resistance Hamas has accepted the terms to release the likely dead members of the Israeli Defense Force.
Hamas is looked upon the West as terrorists. I will no longer accept this narrative about the resistance. Hamas is the only thing defending itself before a fascist ethnostate controlled by Jewish extremists.
Trump on Friday ordered Israel to stop bombing the Gaza Strip after Hamas said it had accepted some elements of his plan to end the nearly two-year war and return all the remaining hostages taken in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
Hamas said it was willing to release the hostages and hand over power to other Palestinians, but that other aspects of the plan require further consultations among Palestinians. Senior Hamas officials suggested there were still major disagreements that required further negotiations.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was prepared for the implementation of the “first stage” of Trump’s plan, apparently referring to the release of hostages. But his office said in a statement that Israel was committed to ending the war based on principles it has set out before, without addressing potential gaps with Hamas.
Trump welcomed the Hamas statement, saying: “I believe they are ready for a lasting PEACE.”
“Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza, so that we can get the Hostages out safely and quickly! Right now, it’s far too dangerous to do that. We are already in discussions on details to be worked out,” he wrote on social media.
Hamas said aspects of the proposal touching on the future of the Gaza Strip and Palestinian rights should be decided on the basis of a “unanimous Palestinian stance” reached with other factions and based on international law.
The statement also made no mention of Hamas disarming, a key Israeli demand included in Trump’s proposal.
Latest ceasefire effort is widely welcomed
Trump appears keen to deliver on pledges to end the war and return dozens of hostages ahead of the second anniversary of the attack on Tuesday.
Key mediators Egypt and Qatar welcomed the latest developments, and Majed Al Ansari, a spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, said they would “continue discussions on the plan.”
The chaotic Trump demands a Nobel Peace Prize for the work. This old fool tried to overthrow the U.S. and sparked chaos in an unprovoked strike on Iran.
A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said he “urges all parties to seize the opportunity to bring the tragic conflict in Gaza to an end.” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on social media that “the release of all hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza are within reach!”
The main organization representing the families of Israeli hostages said Trump’s demand to halt the fighting “is essential to prevent serious and irreversible harm to the hostages.” It called on Netanyahu “to immediately begin efficient and swift negotiations to bring all our hostages home.”
Trump’s plan would end the fighting and return hostages
Earlier, Trump had warned that Hamas must agree to the deal by Sunday evening, threatening an even greater military onslaught.
“If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas,” Trump wrote Friday on social media. “THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.”
Under the plan, which Trump unveiled earlier this week alongside Netanyahu, Hamas would release the remaining 48 hostages — around 20 of them believed to be alive, within three days. It would also give up power and disarm.
In return, Israel would halt its offensive and withdraw from much of the territory, release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and allow an influx of humanitarian aid and eventual reconstruction. Plans to relocate much of Gaza’s population to other countries would be shelved.
The territory of some 2 million Palestinians would be placed under international governance, with Trump himself and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair overseeing it. The plan provides no path for eventual reunification with the Israeli-occupied West Bank in a future Palestinian state.
Palestinians long for an end to the war, but many view this and previous U.S. proposals as strongly favoring Israel.
Hamas officials air objections in TV interviews
Trump’s proposal “cannot be implemented without negotiations,” Mousa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official based outside of Gaza, told the Al Jazeera network on Friday.
The Hamas statement said it was willing to return all remaining hostages according to the plan’s “formula,” apparently referring to an exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. It also reiterated its longstanding openness to handing power over to a politically independent Palestinian body.
This vile creature will not accept a ceasefire.
But Abu Marzouk said it might be difficult for Hamas to release all the hostages within 72 hours, because it could take days or weeks to locate the remains of some of the captives.
He said Hamas was willing to hand over its weapons to a future Palestinian body that runs Gaza, but there was no mention of that in the official statement.
Another Hamas official, Osama Hamdan, told Al Araby television that Hamas would refuse foreign administration of the Gaza Strip and that the entry of foreign forces would be “unacceptable.”
US and Israel seek to pressure Hamas
Israel has sought to ramp up pressure on Hamas since ending an earlier ceasefire in March. It sealed the territory off from food, medicine and other goods for 2 1/2 months and has seized, flattened and largely depopulated large areas.
Experts determined that Gaza City had slid into famine shortly before Israel launched a major offensive aimed at occupying it. An estimated 400,000 people have fled the city in recent weeks, but hundreds of thousands more have stayed behind.
Olga Cherevko, a spokesperson for the U.N. humanitarian office, said she saw several displaced families staying in the parking lot of Shifa Hospital during a visit on Thursday.
“They are not able to move south because they just cannot afford it,” Cherevko told The Associated Press. “One of the families had three children and the woman was pregnant with her fourth. And there were many other vulnerable cases there, including elderly people and people with disabilities.”
Most of Hamas’ top leaders in Gaza and thousands of its fighters have already been killed, but it still has influence in areas not controlled by the Israeli military and launches sporadic attacks.
Hamas has long insisted it will only release the remaining hostages — its sole bargaining chip and potential human shields — in exchange for a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal. Netanyahu has rejected those terms, saying Hamas must surrender and disarm.
Second anniversary approaches
Reistance fighters stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, attacking army bases, farming communities and an outdoor music festival, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians. They abducted 251 others, most of them since released in ceasefires or other deals.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed more than 66,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many were civilians or combatants. It says women and children make up around half the dead.
The ministry and the U.N. and many independent experts consider its figures to be the most reliable estimate of wartime casualties.
The offensive has displaced around 90% of Gaza’s population, often multiple times, and left much of the territory uninhabitable.
Israel plans on striking Iran soon.
Both the Biden and Trump administrations have tried to end the fighting and bring back the hostages while providing extensive military and diplomatic support to Israel.
Israel and its allies overplayed the use of antisemitism. From now on, as long as there is no violence towards anyone practicing Judaism or Islam, I will not hold my tongue when criticizing Israel, Jews, President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, members of Congress, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, Zionism, colonialism, imperialism, slavery, racism, Christian nationalism and white supremacy.
Again, as long as there is no violence towards anyone practicing religious beliefs, there is no antisemitism when criticizing the Jews.
To clear up the AP's account of Oct. 7, the Israelis used the Hannibal Directive to massacre the settlers to prevent Hamas from taking IDF soliders. The IDF has used the weapons to kill settlers at a festival.
Hamas has been very clear on who they targeted. They targeted the IDF and the walls. They do not target civilians. Israel has exaggerated the way this went down.
They have used American weapons to kill settlers, doctors, humanitarian aid workers, UN peacekeepers and their own IDF soliders. Israel has killed Americans, British, German, Australian, Canadians and French citizens.
No investigations were carried out to why Israel targeted them.
Israel refuses to allow independent monitors into Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.
IDF soliders who refuse to carry out orders are often taken out by snipers.
The "hostages" were IDF soliders.
Israel has violated the ceasefire. They will continue to invade Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria.
Mask off.
Resistance is not terrorism.
Occupation of oppressed people is not peace.
A two state solution is "separate but equal" and a de facto apartheid.
Telling other countries to take Palestinians is ethnic cleansing.
A sovereignty seizing land in a violent conflict is a war crime.
A violent attack on children throwing rocks at tanks is justified in the minds of those who support Israel.
Spitting and shoving Christians, Satanists, non Zionist Jews, Muslims and Hindus is considered a custom in Israel. How is this disgusting act justified?
The double standard in media coverage is the Israelis are hostages and the Palestinians are prisoners. Some of the Palestinians held in Israeli custody are children under the age of 14.
When Russia seized Ukrainian land and Crimea, the U.S. pushed for sanctions.
When Israel seized Lebanese and Syrian land, the U.S. recognized it as Israeli sovereignty. They have actively rejected sanctions imposed on Israel.
Iran supports the resistance. The U.S. and Israel labels it as an enabler of terrorism and war. Yet, Israel has created the conflicts by forcing regime change, killing their civilians, their scientists, their military generals and their diplomats. No one seems to call this terrorism. In fact, some U.S. lawmakers see it as justifiable offense.
Hamas stated the reasons for the attack on occupation forces. It has nothing to do with the Jewish religion or Iran.
The IDF has the weapons to destroy everything. All on the American taxpayer, Israel has killed civilians, their own citizens and the status quo.
The evil Israeli regime has fanned outrage over regime change, boycotting entertainers who support Israel, octopuses, buttons, protests at synagogues, protests at Holocaust museums, blocking roads, blocking bridges, boycotting companies and calling for international sanctions.
The support for Israel is collapsing. Regardless of what happens, Israel will not longer be accepted as a legitimate player.
Israel keeps calling it an attack on Jewish people and it amounts to antisemitic propaganda.
Let me get this straight: You are more upset over words than actions. You upset over people rejecting a foreign country's narrative about sexual assault and war crimes. You are upset someone using their freedom of speech to criticize a foreign country engaged in a propaganda campaign to shield itself from war crimes and impunity. You are upset over people using their voices, their wallets and their time to protest an injustice. Well, get upset over your taxpayer money aiding foreign nations. Get upset over foreign nations killing Americans in a war funded by our taxpayer money. Get upset over the deaths of thousands in Haiti, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, Venezuela, Myanmar, Mexico, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Ukraine and Palestine.
Get upset at your president, your senator, your representative, your governor, your state leader, your mayor and your local junk food media for bowing to the evil regime of Israel.
Could you name one damn thing Israel's done for the United States?
The Israeli government through its proxies are trying to sway American lawmakers into criminalizing criticism of its actions to antisemitism.
Israel's latest excuses to justify the genocide:
They claimed that Hamas wants to kill as many Jews as possible.
They claim that Hamas has underground tunnels under schools, hospitals and refugee camps.
They claim that Hamas was planning on building a dirty bomb.
They claim that Hamas are using civilians as human shields.
They claim that Hamas is ISIS.
They claim that Hamas had a copy of Mein Kampf inside a base in a children's bedroom.
They claim that Hamas was beheading 40 babies.
They claim that Hamas misfired a rocket at a hospital.
They claim that Hamas wants a regional war.
They claim that Hamas had command centers under hospitals and UNRWA schools.
They claim that Hamas had top secret plans to attack the U.S. and Great Britain.
They claim that Hamas has a calendar that showed the shifts of who was watching the hostages.
They claim that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Bella Hadid, Gigi Hadid, Macklamore, Alyssa Milano, Rashida Tlaib, Andre Carson and Dave Chappelle are supporters of Hamas and terrorism.
They claim that Hamas shot female soliders in the buttocks and breasts.
They claim that Hamas shot dead vilians and raped the corpses.
They claim that Hamas has placed explosive devices on corpses.
They claim that Hamas has impregnate captured female settlers and soliders.
They claim that Hamas has infiltrated college campuses in the U.S. and Great Britain.
They claim that Hamas support from individuals amounts to being a terrorist sympathizer.
They claim that Hamas violated the ceasefire by not releasing certain settlers Israel demanded in its release.
They claim that Hamas brainwashed settlers and IDF soliders who were released.
They claimed that hospital results of dead babies or civilians are staged by Hamas.
Hamas is not raping women and there is no proof they done such a horrible act. It is part of the dehumanizing campaign Israel is promoting to influencers in the West. You see it when they are constantly deflecting from the images of Gaza being destroyed by American and European sponsored Israeli weapons. In their minds, they are justifying the brutal slaughter of children, men, women, journalists and doctors as collateral damage.
This week Israel has violently seized the international flotellas fleet peacefully trying to deliver goods to the illegal blockade around Gaza.
Will some country finally use its military to dismantle Israel?
This 🇮🇱 And Zionism Will Be Regarded As A Symbol Of Evil In The 21st Century.
A civil war is looming in the United States.
A global war is happening as we speak. Russia, Israel and the United States will never follow international law or order. It is time for Americans to hold our lawmakers and the president accountable.
Why can't Donald J. Trump, Rupert Murdoch or Elon Musk catch a fate like Sean "Puffy" Combs? They seem to be on the white side of the law. Diddy gets a near nickel in.
Sean "Puffy" Combs, the former media mogul and rapper learned his fate. He will petition for an appeal. The former Bad Boy Records and Revolt TV CEO has been sentenced by a federal judge in his procurement conviction.
Combs was sentenced Friday to four years and two months in prison for transporting people across state lines for sexual encounters, capping a sordid federal case that featured harrowing testimony and ended in a forceful reckoning for one of the most influential figures in hip-hop.
Since Combs has already served a year in jail, the sentence means that the 55-year-old could get out in about three years. While prosecutors sought a sentence of more than 11 years, his lawyers wanted him freed immediately and said the time behind bars has already forced his remorse and sobriety.
Combs was convicted in July of flying his girlfriends and male sex workers around the country to engage in drug-fueled sexual encounters in multiple places and over many years. However, he was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges that could have put him behind bars for life.
“Why did it happen so long?” U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian asked as he handed down the sentence. “Because you had the power and the resources to keep it going, and because you weren’t caught.”
Combs' children plea to the judge for mercy.
Subramanian, who also fined Combs $500,000, the maximum allowed, praised the accusers who testified at trial. They effectively spoke for countless others who experienced abuse, the judge said: “You gave them a voice. You stood up to power.”
Combs, sitting at the defense table, looked straight ahead as the judge spoke. He remained subdued afterward and appeared dejected, with none of the enthusiasm and smiles he displayed while interacting with his lawyers and family earlier in the day.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” he said to his family right before leaving the courtroom.
Combs’ lawyers said they’ll appeal.
“What we feel today is that the judge acted as a 13th juror, one we did not choose, and that he second guessed the jury’s verdict,” defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo told reporters after leaving court.
Before sentencing, Combs wept as his defense lawyers played a video portraying his family life, career and philanthropy, and he went on to make a plea for leniency.
“I ask your honor for a chance to be a father again,” Combs said, “a son again ... a leader in my community again ... for a chance to get the help that I desperately need to be a better person.” He apologized to the people he hurt physically and mentally with his “disgusting, shameful” actions, and said the domestic violence was a burden he would carry for the rest of his life.
Combs sobs as he learns his sentence.
His nearly two-month trial in a federal court in Manhattan featured testimony from women who said Combs beat, threatened, sexually assaulted and blackmailed them. Prosecutor Christy Slavik told the judge Friday that sparing Combs serious prison time would excuse years of violence.
“It’s a case about a man who did horrible things to real people to satisfy his own sexual gratification,” she said. “His currency was control. And he weaponized that currency to devastating effects on the victims.”
Combs was convicted under the Mann Act, which bans transporting people across state lines for any sexual crime. Defense attorney Jason Driscoll argued Friday the law was misapplied.
During testimony at the trial, former girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura told jurors that Combs ordered her to have “disgusting” sex with strangers hundreds of times during their decade-long relationship. Jurors saw video of him dragging and beating her in a Los Angeles hotel hallway after one such multiday “freak-off.”
“While nothing can undo the trauma caused by Combs,” Cassie’s attorneys, Douglas Wigdor and Meredith Firetog, said in a statement, “the sentence imposed today recognizes the impact of the serious offenses he committed.”
Another woman, identified as “Jane,” testified she was pressured into sex with male workers during drug-fueled “hotel nights” while Combs watched and sometimes filmed.
Bad Boy 4 Life.
Combs’ lawyers argued at trial that the government was trying to criminalize consensual, if unconventional, sexual tastes.
The only accuser scheduled to speak Friday, a former assistant known as “Mia,” withdrew after defense objections; Slavik accused Combs’ attorneys of “bullying” the woman. She has accused Combs of raping her in 2010 and asked the judge in a letter for a sentence that reflects “the ongoing danger my abuser poses.”
Will the Sean "Puffy" Combs sentencing open the door to exposing other rappers and entertainers who committed sexual abuse?
Six of Combs’ seven children addressed the judge, pleading for mercy for their father. One daughter, D’Lila Combs, said she feared losing her father after the death of her mother, Kim Porter, in 2018.
“Please, your honor, please,” D’Lila said through tears, “give our family the chance to heal together, to rebuild, to change, to move forward, not as a headline, but as human beings.”
Outside the courthouse, journalists and onlookers swarmed, echoing scenes from Combs’ trial.
Sade Bess, a Combs fan from Brooklyn, left the court’s overflow observation room looking both sad and relieved.
“It’s devastating to see a pioneer of the Black community’s legacy nearly diminished,” she said. “But the judge showed mercy by giving him a second chance, while still honoring the victims.”
Not a Black man. Not a Muslim. Not an immigrant. Not a leftist. A white man who preached morality while molesting children had close ties to our sexual predator president being held accountable.
Remember, we are not a Christian nation. We are a country of many religions, languages and cultures. If anyone tells you anything less, ignore them.
A former mega church pastor is now a sexual predator. He was an ally to the 45th/47th President of the United States. He is a morbidly obese white man who took advantage of a shy preteen who had a crush on him in the 1980s. He used his religion, his cunning nature and white privilege to sexually assualt her.
Now she managed to take on her accuser and won.
But according to the far right, all the sexual assault and violent crimes are caused by Black men.
Is Charlie Kirk available for comment on Black criminality?
Nevermind.
Robert Morris, the Texas megachurch pastor who built Gateway Church into one of the largest congregations in the country, pleaded guilty Thursday in Osage County District Court to charges that he sexually abused a girl in the 1980s.
Morris, 64, entered the plea before Judge Cindy Pickerill, admitting to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child. Under a negotiated plea agreement, he was given a 10-year sentence, but he will serve only six months in the county jail. He must also register as a sex offender and pay $250,000 in restitution.
Morris was handcuffed and taken into custody after Thursday's hearing.
Cindy Clemishire, the woman who accused Morris of molesting her at age 12, sat in the courtroom, surrounded by family, as Morris accepted responsibility — a moment she sought for decades.
The plea represents a remarkable fall for Morris, who founded Gateway in 2000 in Southlake, Texas, and grew it into a megachurch with tens of thousands of weekly attendees. His sermons were broadcast to audiences around the world, his books became bestsellers in evangelical circles, and he served as a faith adviser to President Donald Trump.
Did you know sexual abuse victims still voted for Trump despite his history of sexual abuse?
That career collapsed in June 2024 after Clemishire, 55, publicly accused him of sexually abusing her. Within days, Gateway announced that Morris was stepping down. In a statement at the time, Morris acknowledged what he described as “a moral failure” with a “young lady” decades earlier but didn’t respond to the specifics of the allegation.
Clemishire told NBC News the abuse began on Christmas night in 1982, when she was 12 and wearing flowery pink pajamas. Morris, a traveling evangelist in his early 20s who sometimes stayed with her family in Oklahoma, invited her to his room, where, she said, he instructed her to lie on her back. He then touched her breasts and felt under her panties, she said — the first of several similar encounters that would span the next few years. “Never tell anyone about this,” Clemishire recalled him saying. “It will ruin everything.”
She kept the secret until 1987, when she told her parents and leaders at her church. Morris went through what he later described as a “restoration process” in the late 1980s before he returned to ministry. Nobody called the police, Clemishire said.
Years later, in the mid-2000s — after Morris had risen to national prominence — Clemishire approached him and leaders of Gateway Church, seeking $50,000 in restitution to recover what she’d spent processing her childhood trauma in therapy, records show. In 2007, Morris’ lawyer at the time wrote a letter suggesting Clemishire bore responsibility for the “inappropriate behavior” between her and Morris when she was a child, according to a copy of the message reviewed by NBC News. Morris offered to pay $25,000, but the talks fell apart, Clemishire said, because she wasn’t willing to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
After decades of roadblocks, a family friend encouraged Clemishire to go public last year. She shared her story with The Wartburg Watch, a blog focused on exposing stories of abuse in churches.
Only in America, a white preacher who sexually abused a woman when she was a teen gets less than a year in the iron college. Our president the very definition of white privilege is dismantling our country while in cognitive decline.
After Morris resigned, the Oklahoma attorney general’s office opened an investigation. In March 2025, a multicounty grand jury indicted him on the five felony counts, charging that he had abused Clemishire from 1982 to 1985. Prosecutors argued that Oklahoma law allowed them to pursue the case despite the passage of decades, pointing to a frontier-era provision that pauses the clock on the statute of limitations when a defendant moves out of state.
At his first court appearance in May, Morris pleaded not guilty and was released on a $50,000 bond. Last month, he waived his preliminary hearing, a signal that his defense team and prosecutors were engaged in plea negotiations. Those talks culminated Thursday with Morris’ guilty plea.
In a prepared statement, Clemishire told Morris in court his abuse “rippled into every part” of her life, straining relationships, damaging her marriages and affecting the way she raised her children. She said she prayed that God helped him to understand the depth of the pain he inflicted.
Morris eyes were fixed on the table in front of him as Clemishire, speaking through tears, faced him during her remarks.
“Let me be clear,” she said. “There is no such thing as consent from a 12-year-old child. We were never in an ‘inappropriate relationship.’ I was not a ‘young lady’ but a child. You committed a crime against me.”
Clemishire 's 82-year-old father silently wept as she spoke. Her sister, Karen Black, also testified, sharing how the abuse shattered every member of their family — grief compounded by decades of watching Morris rise to celebrity.
"You pretended to be holy, preaching from big pulpits," Black told him in court. "As you hid behind your facade, we’ve known you are nothing but a predator."
This is America.
As he was being led away in handcuffs, Morris turned to his wife, Debbie, and their children: "Love y'all," he said.
The guilty plea is the latest development in a case that has reverberated far beyond rural Oklahoma. In November, Gateway Church announced it had removed four elders after an investigation by an outside law firm concluded some had known about Clemishire’s allegations years ago but failed to act. Earlier this year, Morris sued Gateway seeking millions in retirement benefits, alleging the church mishandled his resignation and damaged his reputation. Gateway has denied Morris’ claims, saying in a statement that his demands “do not reflect accountability for the impact of his actions on the community.” The lawsuit is pending.
The scandal drew national attention as an example of how decades-old allegations of child sex abuse can be prosecuted. Advocates for survivors point to Clemishire’s story as evidence of how victims often wait years to come forward and why civil and criminal statutes of limitation should be eliminated in cases of child sex abuse.
After Clemishire spoke out, she heard from numerous women from across the country who said they, too, had been victims of child sexual abuse at the hands of trusted religious leaders. Her disclosure inspired some to go public with allegations for the first time. In one such example, several women accused their former children’s pastor, Joe Campbell, of molesting them in the 1980s in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri — allegations uncovered in an NBC News investigation and documentary in May. Campbell didn’t respond to requests for comment.
For Clemishire, Thursday’s plea represented a long-awaited acknowledgment of the trauma inflicted on her as a child.
“Today marks a new beginning for me, my family and my friends who have been by my side throughout this horrendous journey,” Clemishire told Morris in court, a defiant tremor in her voice.
“Robert, I want you to see me clearly: I am no longer the silenced little girl you abused.”
Black women talent is always valued. Why do these folks got a problem with it?
A Black Republican band leader had to apologize after he made a fat shaming sexist remark about a rival dance and cheerleader squad.
The attacks on Black women.
A longtime band announcer for Florida A&M University referred to the Honey Beez, a plus-size dance team from Alabama State University, as the “face of Ozempic” during a Sept. 27 football game, he issued an apology for his ill-received comments.
"Friendly competition and playful jesting have long been a part of HBCU [Historically Black Colleges and Universities] band culture, but I have come to understand that my words crossed a line," Bullard wrote on Facebook Sept. 29, according to the Tallahassee Democrat. "My intention was never to belittle or disrespect the incredible young people who represent our schools with such grace, talent and pride.”
He added, “They are the embodiment of our culture, and they deserve nothing less than our full respect."
Can't these motherfuckers keep Black America (especially Black women) out their conversations?
In a video of Bullard’s remarks found online, the crowd audibly booed the announcer over what he referred to in his apology as “lighthearted banter” about the dancers needing the popularized weight loss drug.
"I now recognize that they came across in a way that was hurtful and disrespectful," the emcee continued. "For that, I extend my deepest and most heartfelt apologies: first and foremost to the ASU Honey Beez, to Alabama State University, to the Alabama State University Marching Band, to Florida A&M University and to the fans and supporters of both institutions who were in attendance, or anyone else who heard my words.”
While sharing his “hope that we can continue to move forward together,” he concluded, “To anyone who was offended, I am truly sorry."
Alabama State’s plus sized dance team (The Honey Beez) performed at FAMU this weekend during halftime.
After they were finished, the FAMU stadium announcer congratulated them on “becoming the new face of Ozempic.”
Here's the video of the Florida A&M PA announcer calling Alabama State's "Honey Beez" plus-sized dance team "the new face of Ozempic." 😬 pic.twitter.com/TGBGdikWMw
The #HBCU community is reacting to a halftime controversy from Saturday’s football game between Alabama State University and FAMU. As the well-known plus-sized Alabama State Honey Beez left the field after their performance, Florida A&M band announcer Joe Bullard called them “the… pic.twitter.com/AYkNgIRHgd
Alabama State's SELECTIVE outrage .... Southern devoted an entire 1 min 34 sec segment of their halftime show 3 wks ago mocking the Honey Beez and their combine weight of 2034 lbs !!!#HBCU l #HBCUs l #HBCUBands | #SWACpic.twitter.com/IFfdKTsXkx
Joe Bullard reportedly called Alabama State University's plus-sized dance team, the Honey Beez, “the new face of Ozempic," per the Tallahassee Democrat.
Those "modern American cheerleaders" are the Alabama State University (ASU) Honeybeez anger they're the university's plus-size MAJORETTE team. There's nothing wrong with the video you chose, but I wanted to show what they're about ☺️ https://t.co/jm5b7Nj1LZpic.twitter.com/1beVkhq12e
These Beez have invaded THE SOUTH! ASU has the best plus-sized college dance team in America, & why not, since we came up with the idea & have been doing it the longest. Alabama State Honey Beez bring positive, plus-size attitude to Historically Black Colleges and Universities pic.twitter.com/f13cERi5ge
So FAMU announcer decided to disrespect the Honeybeez, the dance team of Alabama State University Marching Hornets calling them “the new face of ozempic” at yesterday’s FAMU vs ASU football game.
— Skylar Ezell: Colored Writer In A Milky Way Ghetto (@SkylarTheWriter) September 30, 2025
On the day of Bullard’s comments, Florida A&M’s president Marva B. Johnson condemned the announcer’s “offensive remark” with a strongly-worded statement.
“I extend my deepest and sincerest apologies to the Honey Beez, the Mighty Marching Hornets, [ASU] President Quinton Ross, and the entire Alabama State University community,” Johnson shared in the Facebook statement. "The Honey Beez represent discipline, school pride, and their performance tradition is respected across the nation. To have their dedication and artistry diminished by a thoughtless comment does not reflect the values or the respect we hold for our colleagues at Alabama State University or for the broader HBCU community.”
Johnson noted the university is “taking immediate steps to ensure accountability” and “prevent incidents like this in the future.”
This is what MAGAland does. They cannot and will not mind their own business.
Joe Bullard (right) was pulled from the announcer booth.
Y'all voted for chaos and you got it. Black Americans who didn't vote for President Donald J. Trump are keeping our heads down and not trying to get involved in the noise.
Republicans bank on culture wars as well as divide and conquer. They are worthless even in power. With majorities in Congress, the White House and state governments, they still ruin everything for an imaginary sky deity. They want to push anti-Black policies under guise of Black empowerment through conservatism.
We are not trying to hand the Democrats a free pass either. They need to clean house on Zionists, racists, homophobes and Islamophobes. The Democrats are unpopular too.
The last seven nationally televised mass shootings were done by white men. Only one mass shooting that got national coverage involved a Black man.
Charlie Kirk minions are appearing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities to stir up controversy. They literally trying to push for Trump to cut funding because their feelings were hurt.
Black and white students attend HCBUs. But you cannot tell that to MAGAland.
Since that white nationalist was assassinated in Utah in September, the far right has taken their frustrations out on the left. Not the white shooter. Not the state governor and lawmakers who allowed guns on college campuses. Not the federal lawmakers who refuse to do something about gun violence. They lowered flags on behalf of a white man who made a living on divisiveness.
Did you know that Congress passed a honorary on Kirk?
He would have been 32 on October 14th. They aligned it to irony. George Floyd was born on October 14th. He would have been 52.
They will do anything for a buck. Even promote propaganda on behalf of a genocidal apartheid ethnostate.
Desperate times calls for desperate measures.
The Israeli regime is pushing algorithms on TikTok, X and YouTube to push a positive image of an already crumbling narrative.
Wikileaks revealed that when regime leader Benjamin Netanyahu came to the United Nations and the White House, he met with social media influncers.
Netanyahu and the Israeli operatives are pushing hard on the content. They are literally gaslighting issues to Black content creators, those in the LGBTQ community and even secular Muslims.
Did you hear about how Black Palestinians are living in ghettos?
Did you hear about how Hamas is throwing gay people off buildings?
Did you know about the IDF solider who is a practicing Muslim?
Did you know that Qatar and Iran are paying these protesters?
Did you know Greta Thunberg was seen in a photograph with a Hamas official?
This is the verbal garbage Israel is promoting on social media. Some of these folks are buying this as verified while the rest of us are smelling bullshit.
The Esther Project sponsored by the The Bridge Partners for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is shelving out $7,000 for pro Zionist content.
Lucrative investment on the blood of millions.
I guess Brad Parscale is working for that mollah. The former Trump campaign official had registered as a foreign agent in September.
I maybe surviving a chaotic Trump presidency and times are rough for millions of Americans, my ethics are crystal clear, I will not sell out to a partisan directive promoted by a foreign ally or adversary.
Leaked documents published by WikiLeaks and confirmed through filings with the U.S. Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) reveal that the Israeli government is paying American social media influencers up to $7,000 per post to promote pro-Israel content.
“Our MAGA influencers…the biggest message they need to hear is they're not America First if they’re taking payments by a foreign government.”@RepMTG responds to reports that Israel is paying social media influencers up to $7,000 for every pro-Israel post they make. pic.twitter.com/4c66hosQF8
By blaming Israel for literally everything you actually hurt your own argument when they do bad things that should be called out and discussed. Maybe let’s focus more on the left that’s actively trying to harm us on a daily basis. pic.twitter.com/wMBGG1HKJ4
Israel's $150M Influencer Fiasco: Hiring Hacks to Spin Gaza Genocide, But the World’s Not Buying It!
Welcome to the circus of desperation: Israel, in a $150 million bid to salvage its image, hires social media influencers like Emily Austin and Xaviaer DuRousseau to peddle… pic.twitter.com/qccSObUNOE
The campaign—managed by Bridges Partners LLC and coordinated via Havas Media Group Germany—is part of a $900,000 budget allocated for recruiting and training over a dozen influencers.
According to Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Responsible Statecraft, the initiative aims to shape public opinion amid growing backlash over Israel’s military operations in Gaza.
This effort is one arm of a broader foreign influence strategy launched after Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar secured a twentyfold increase in Israel’s global PR budget, raising it to $150 million in late 2024, as reported by The Jerusalem Post.
Documents also show that Israel pays $1.5 million per month to U.S. digital strategist Brad Parscale, former campaign manager for Donald Trump, to generate AI-driven pro-Israel messaging at scale.
Souless.
Parscale registered as a foreign agent under FARA in early 2025, according to Mediaite and MSN News.
Public reaction has been swift. Critics on social media and independent outlets have called the campaign a “public bribe” aimed at manipulating U.S. discourse and deflecting attention from alleged war crimes in Gaza, now entering their third year.
Further controversy erupted after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with pro-Israel influencers in New York during his visit to the UN General Assembly in September 2025.
Attendees included Debra Leah, Lizzy Savetsky, Emily Austin, Shay Zabo, Hannah Faulkner, The LatinxZionist, and Dania Avner, as confirmed by JTA and The Jerusalem Post.
Netanyahu emphasized the strategic importance of social media, calling platforms like TikTok and X “the most important battlegrounds” for shaping global opinion.
Meanwhile, a September 2025 poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College found:
51% of U.S. voters oppose sending more aid to Israel
Support for Palestinians rose to 35%, while support for Israel fell to 34%—a reversal from 2023
68% of voters under 30 oppose further aid
58% say Israel should halt military operations even if hostages remain
40% believe Israel is deliberately targeting civilians—up from 22% in 2023
This marks a dramatic shift in American public sentiment and raises urgent questions about the ethics and legality of foreign-funded influence campaigns targeting domestic audiences.
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