Had Martin Luther King, Jr. been alive, he would still fight against the system.
If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was alive today, the country will still be as polarizing as he were alive. As you see, our democracy is on the decline and Americans are frustrated to a point where now anything could trigger unrest.
King Day is a federal holiday in the United States observed on the third Monday of January each year. King was the chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement, which protested legalized racial discrimination in federal and state law and civil society. The movement led to several groundbreaking legislative reforms in the United States.
King is the only U.S. citizen who was never elected to office to have a holiday.
Christopher Columbus, a violent white supremacist colonizer also has a holiday.
This year the holiday will be even more important. With talks of genocide, war and pandemic, the need for activism has increased.
President Donald J. Trump has officially canceled free access to our national parks on King Day and Juneteenth. His birthday on June 14 is Flag Day and the president ordered it to be a national holiday for free access.
father as a symbol to their horrendous acts against humanity.
Republicans continue to use selective quotes from King to justify white supremacy.
Immigration rights activists are filing lawsuits against Trump and the Department of Homeland Security as the kickoff to mass deportation begins.
Pro Palestinian groups continue to press on despite the ceasefire. Israel has already violated the ceasefire despite the agreements to release captured IDF soliders and settlers. Palestinians who were placed in Israeli custody were not given the rock star treatment as the settlers (soliders) being released from Gazan custody.
Alveda King, the cousin of Bernice and Martin Luther King, III will attend the Trump inauguration. She is feuding with the surviving son and daughter of the late civil rights leader. Alveda continues a misrepresentation of King's legacy.
Charlie Kirk is pressing for Republicans to repeal King day. Many of these Republicans are listening to Kirk.
Kirk calls King a Marxist and racial arsonist who didn’t deserve a holiday.
Several states in the South will celebrate the disgraceful legacymof Robert E. Lee.
Pete Hegseth has promise to return the original Confederate names to military installations in the South.
if King was alive, he would be 96 years old. He would be vilified by the far right like the retired civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, Sr. and National Action Network leader Rev. Al Sharpton. Shaprton is a host on MSNBC.
At the age of 39, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
It came 10 years after a woman tried to stab him to death. Izola Curry, a former housekeeper tried to kill King when he appeared at a book signing in Harlem.
Curry blamed the NAACP and King for her failures as a she tried to find work.
He was there on behalf of striking garbage workers. After a staying at the Lorraine Motel, King and a few of his friends were going to have a dinner.
A gunman fired from a windows in a neighboring motel room striking him in the head and chest.
King was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested on June 8, 1968, at London's Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States and charged with the crime. On March 10, 1969, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee State Penitentiary. He later made many attempts to withdraw his guilty plea and to be tried by a jury, but was unsuccessful. Ray died in prison in 1998.
King traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, in support of striking African-American city sanitation workers. The workers had staged a walkout on February 11, 1968, to protest unequal wages and working conditions imposed by mayor Henry Loeb. At the time, Memphis paid black workers significantly lower wages than it did white workers. There were no city-issued uniforms, no restrooms, no recognized union, and no grievance procedure for the numerous occasions on which they were underpaid. During Loeb's tenure as mayor, conditions did not significantly improve, and the gruesome February 1968 deaths of two workers in a garbage-compacting truck turned mounting tensions into a strike.
Many communities have roads, bridges, buildings and monuments named after him.
The King family have repeatedly denounced Trump, particularly as the GOP nominee has continually invoked the civil rights legend’s name.
So once again why do we honor King when the U.S. is never committed to his legacy?
On the third Monday of January, the U.S. government acknowledged it as a national holiday. It is the only national holiday that celebrates the life of a non government official.
Now honestly, I believe it is a travesty to King by giving him a holiday. I believe the key to honoring his legacy is to eliminate the hate the U.S. continues to fester in.
King should never be forgotten. His legacy as a civil rights leader was controversial.
Republicans opposed the holiday in the 1980s. It was John Conyers who made the holiday a national law. He pushed for it and then president Ronald Reagan vehemently opposed it on the grounds that he viewed King as a Communist. White nationalists like Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and Trent Lott.
He was vilified by conservatives. Black figures like Malcolm X called him a sell-out or a traitor to his race. Others claimed he was a snake oil salesman, an adulterer and a fraud.
From 1953 until his untimely death in 1968, King led the fight for Blacks in the South. He called for an end to Jim Crow segregation laws, establish voting rights for Blacks, and call for an end to poverty.
So many things happened during his time on earth but most didn't know he was a marked man because he stood up against the system.
Did you know he nearly committed suicide after his grandmother passed away?
Did you know that King did not trust white people at one time hated them for the way they treated his father, brother and mother?
Did you know he survive two assassination attempts before the Memphis encounter?
Did you know Martin Luther King was an independent not a Republican?
Democrats were not all on board with civil rights. Republicans at one time were the champions of civil rights. With the fears of communism and the conservative rise of charlatans like Joseph McCarthy, Strom Thrumond and Barry Goldwater, King was the other enemy to the far right.
King did lead the Montgomery bus boycott, the Albany, Georgia movement and protest in Birmingham. Richard Nixon blew an opportunity to win Black voters. Then vice president brushed off the calls to take on Southern governors attempts to stop desegregation. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts called upon the release of King and asked for his brother Robert and civil rights leaders to aid him. That earned King's endorsement. Kennedy would become the 35th President of the United States.
Kennedy was cautious about King. He knew the allegations of associating with alleged communists would be damaging to him. Kennedy kept the fight for civil rights but died because of it.
He was assassinated in 1963 and Lyndon B. Johnson took control. During that time, King worked with Johnson to get the Kennedy agenda to fruition. It took a speech at the Lincoln Memorial to drive the world to King.
King helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
It was an ugly fight in the 1960s in the South. There was the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, the killing of civil rights workers in Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, the arrest of King and his allies.
The Klan was at its strongest during the 1960s. The federal government was pressured to do something.
The SCLC put into practice the tactics of nonviolent protest with some success by strategically choosing the methods and places in which protests were carried out. There were several dramatic stand-offs with segregationist authorities, who sometimes turned violent.
J. Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of the FBI's COINTELPRO from 1963, forward. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, recorded his extramarital affairs and reported on them to government officials, and, in 1964, mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.
King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work. He was there for the signings of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act under President Lyndon B Johnson.
The two would lose favor after Johnson vowed to support Israel during the infamous Six Day War and his commitment to take on the Viet Cong in Vietnam.
King distanced himself from the 1968 Democratic presidential primaries. He didn't endorse candidates. Johnson sought to no longer be president and it led to a lot of tension.
During the striking garbage workers in Memphis, an assassin shot King in April. The Lorraine Motel in Memphis is now a memorial to his passing.
Since 1983, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday is celebrated in the United States. It was the first holiday to an African American and a non politician. On the third Monday of the month of January, we honor King's legacy and offer a day of service.
I seriously believe that if King was alive, he would be disappointed in the way things are going.
Oh by the way, for those who believe King was a supporter of gun rights, he did own a firearm but refused to use it citing his children accidently shooting themselves if they got a hold of it.
He was a victim of gun violence too.
Gun violence is the biggest threat to the United States.
Republicans and some Democrats twist his legacy into a partisan agenda.
Republicans are on board with white nationalism and dog whistle politics.
Democrats are on the side of white gentificiation and side piece meal politics.
Both sides are not working in the interest of King.
Zionists rage over Azeez Al-Shaair wearing a pro Palestinian tag. The Houston Texans play the New England Patriots at a chance to play the AFC Championship against the Denver Broncos.
Taking a knee gets you kicked off a team.
Not standing for the U.S. National Anthem drives calls for fines, firings and jailing.
Criticize Israel, get called antisemitic, be fired from your job, be harassed by dishonest brain rot agitators who want to prove a point than hear a side.
A genocide is happening in real time and the United States is dragging its credibility down with the apartheid ethnostate of Israel.
As the Houston Texans play against the New England Patriots for the chance to take on the Denver Broncos for the AFC Championship and Super Bowl LX, one player wants to tell the fans that he is aware and he hears the concerns.
Azeez Al-Shaair of the Houston Texans got the Zionists and far right mad.
Al-Shaair wore eyeblack across his face inscribed with the message "Stop the Genocide," which was clearly visible during the game and then in a postgame interview with ESPN.
It riled up the far right sports news aggregator Outkick.
Armando Salguero, staff writer for Outkick NFL coverage wrote that the eyeblack represents a "double standard" to how the NFL punishes misbehavior by the players.
What does criticizing a foreign country has to do with football rules?
He brought up San Francisco 49ers Nick Bosa for wearing a Make America Great Again hat. He was fined for that because he wore a politicial labels. Bosa did appeal that.
Nonetheless, Salguero and Dan Dakich were getting their panties wet over it.
These knuckleheads think that Al-Shaair is promoting anti-Jewish hate.
Anti-Israel has increased since the Oct. 7th act of resistance. It was not a terrorist attack.
Israeli forces literally killed 20 people before Oct. 7th. The Israeli ministers defecated on the al-Aqsa Mosque, a sacred religious site in Hebron in the West Bank. The Israeli settlers had allegedly sexually assaulted girls before the Oct. 7th resistance.
Hamas clearly stated they want to take on the IDF. They had no interest in civilians.
Israel had deployed military forces to eradicate the entire area to prevent hostages.
That is the thing many ain't telling.
Yet, two years in, the Israelis are still killing Palestinians. They are still blocking humanitarian aid. They continue to push President Donald J. Trump to go to war with Iran. They have attacked Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and threatened Iran.
Any critics of Israel are called paid shills of Qatar. They may end up on the Anti-Defamation League's list of people to target.
Free speech for the Zionists who openly say protesters should be raped by Hamas. They do throat slicing hand gestures and hand out mock beepers. They throw water on protesters. They spray mace or fling poop on protesters.
Yet wearing a eyeblack is a crime to those idiots at Outkick.
It's only been one day and Republicans are crying about government overreach by Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger.
First things first, we need to put an end to Third Way. The group has lead Democrats to countless defeats with this notion that the party must be moderate, centrist or conservative to win over swing voters. Yeah, moderation is needed but right now, it isn't working when so many people are tired of the status quo.
Swing voters is just code for white supremacists. I am tired of the Democratic Party trying to work across the aisle when the Republican Party is literally spitting in their faces.
Enough of being nice. The Trump Administration is not nice and they clearly are targeting states that have Democratic leaders.
Virginia is no different.
On Saturday, former congresswoman Abigail Spanberger became the first woman to be governor of the state. For only four years, Gov. Spanberger will have one term to undo the damage her predecessor Glenn Youngkin done to the state.
Youngkin is planning on running again in 2029.
Democrats have a slim supermajority.
They have an opportunity to repair the damages that President Donald J. Trump did during his first year of his second term.
Spanberger has took office on Saturday and her first acts were to repeal the executive order that Youngkin had. The order is to end Virginia State Patrol, the Commonwealth bureau of investigation's assistance with Immigrant Customs and Enforcement. The executive order went into effect and it riled up MAGAland.
Spanberger signed 10 executive orders on her first day in office, outlining early priorities aimed at lowering costs, strengthening public schools and protecting Virginia’s economy.
Spanberger with husband and daughters present at swearing session.
The state's first woman governor signed 10 orders in total on Saturday at the Virginia State Capitol, calling them the opening steps of an administration focused on affordability and results.
“Today, we are responding to the moment,” Spanberger said. “We are setting the tone for what Virginians can expect over the next four years: pragmatic leadership focused on lowering costs and delivering results.”
The first three executive orders direct state agencies to submit reports within 90 days identifying ways to reduce living expenses, establish an Interagency Health Financing Task Force to improve efficiency and lower healthcare costs, and review regulations and permitting practices tied to housing development in an effort to reduce housing costs.
Additional orders focus on academic excellence in public schools, including literacy and mathematics instruction, and require a review of the state’s school performance framework. The education order also calls for a statewide listening tour involving students, parents and educators.
One seeks further review into the governing boards at Virginia colleges, and another directs efforts to improve literacy and mathematics scores and school accountability.
Spanberger also signed orders addressing the impact of federal workforce reductions, tariffs and healthcare cuts, reviewing appointments to higher education governing boards, and establishing protocols related to emergency authority and the governor’s chief of staff.
Another executive order establishes a statewide equal opportunity policy, while a separate law enforcement order rescinds a previous directive related to cooperation with federal civil immigration enforcement.
She told University Of Virginia board members appointed by Youngkin that they have a choice to resign or be fired out the cannon.
She vows to end the shameful past of Virginia. Yeah, that Confederate bullshit still exists in Virginia. The state Republicans refuse to let go of the seditious traitors who fought to keep slavery, white nationalism and colonialism a part of the state's history.
Hopefully, she will incorporate Israel into the equation. She is still supportive of Israel and the Democratic Party is warned that continued support will depress turnout.
Third Way want to keep the status quo active. It ain't happening.
The commonwealth also had a session in the state house. The delegation passed a referendum on the redistricting of the state. Republicans are outraged that the new congressional map will only isolate the Republican friendly districts to southeastern Virginia which has Lynchburg, Bristol, Blacksburg, Danville and parts of Roanoke.
The referendum will be on a special ballot. The voters will decide on whether the state will have a redistricting in the wake of Texas and Missouri doing their gerrymandering.
They also passed legislation to allow former felons to reestablish their voting rights, codify gay marriage and codify access to women's choice.
Republicans fear they could lose four U.S. congressional districts if the voters decide on the measure. Republicans left a bad taste in the mouths of Northern Virginians when the president rolled out DOGE. The government shutdown also did some damage to the DMV.
Washington, DC and its surrounding areas which have Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland were affected by the government cuts. Republican leaning voters were affected by the government shutdown.
Former lieutenant governor Winsome Jerome-Sears, the former Republican gubernatorial nominee told the government workers affected to get over it. It pretty much sealed her fate. Racists didn't want a Black woman as their governor even if she was a Republican.
Republicans need to figure out how to actually win over voters. Cause staying white in a rapidly changing demographic is not going to work for much longer.
Black Zionists rage over New York mayor Zohran Mamdani not having Black deputy mayors despite having Black officials in his mayoral office.
I've listened to SiriusXM Urban View on Saturday and heard Reecie Colbert. She was discussing a New York Times article (i.e. hit piece) on New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani.
According to the article, the mayor has no Black deputy mayor. Colbert went on a rant about how this is a problem and made reference to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), an early supporter of Mamdani. She tried to incorporate the lack of Black support for Mamdani in the primary against Andrew Cuomo. Black voters turned out for Mamdani in high numbers.
She claims that the first Indian American, Ugandan born, first Muslim, second youngest elected mayor of the country's largest city is not having a diverse cabinet of people.
Mamdani has appointed five deputy mayors, none of them Black; one was Latino.
He has coalition of diversity in his cabinet. Of the deputy mayors, four are women.
Kirsten John Foy, the president of the civil rights group Arc of Justice, told the Times that Mamdani is "tone deaf to the cries of Black and Latinos in the city for access to power."
The Times also noted that Mamdani has chosen two Black people for high-profile gigs, schools chancellor and director of intergovernmental affairs, but "leaders say those appointments do not constitute the level of diversity they had expected" from the far-left mayor.
What the Times posted was trying to make racial politics the issue instead od the agenda, he won on.
The New York Times attempts to create a racism scandal for Mamdani because of the skin color of his deputy mayors. The Black civic leaders they quote are all corporate lobbyists and influence peddlers -- a conflict not disclosed in the piece. https://t.co/r8Gix1x1Rvpic.twitter.com/uNBlfbmASe
I am tired of these Kamala Harris stans still seething over her loss. I am disappointed she lost. But it was self inflicted. The former vice president refused to listen to the voices who wanted her to call for a permanent ceasefire or an embargo on Israel. A tone deaf former president Joe Biden refused to acknowledge that under his watch inflation kept rapidly increasing.
Biden refused to lay the hammer on Donald J. Trump. His Justice Department slow walked the Jan. 6 prosecution allowing the Supreme Court to grant him immunity.
Under his watch Roe v. Wade was tossed out in the Supreme Court.
Biden stayed in the race despite him having cancer and folks thought he was too old to sustain a second term. He literally left Harris out to dry.
So many mistakes and I just know that her refusal to call for an end to the genocide was literally a main issue. Race, gender and accomplishments were issues but not strong.
Trump appealed to white voters who were concerned with their pocketbook. Racism did play a role but Trump won over Black men with concerns about their pocketbook too.
Trump is a choas agent. Yet he won over Muslim and Arab voters because he swore he wouldn't get into wars. Well he broke that promise quickly.
Anyway, Colbert was simping for the status quo. The establishment as she called it is older Black voters who continue to vote Democrat. That isn't enough to win elections anymore. Young Black and Hispanic voters do not trust the Democratic Party. With Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer continuing the status quo as well as their iron clad support for Israel, Democrats are still struggling nationally to win over voters.
Mamandi continues to face criticism from Republicans and Zionists. He had enacted policies that are overlooked for neverending distractions (NEDS). He wants to focus on New Yorkers issues not the noise of media agitators.
Why don't the New York Times ask Eric Adams, Bill de Blasio, Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani why they had no Arab American or Muslim deputy mayor?
Fucking noise.
Colbert is an idiot.
Anyway, this distraction comes on the revelation that Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League openly admitting he working with the FBI and big tech to root out antisemitism. He had name checked Mamdani, Ms. Rachel Tucker Carlson, Hassan Piker, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Madea Benjamin and Chris Smalls as targets.
He also vows to ruin critics of Israel. That makes no fucking sense.
The writer of the New York Times Jeffrey Mays is a Zionist. He is a Black reporter covering issues around the city.
He wrote this piece to ignore the initiatives Mamdani issued to tackle the affordability crisis. He wants to have public restrooms avaliable to citizens, an end to landlords raising rent but not fixing the structures, childcare for parents working, affordable transportation and a push to end Israeli influence in the New York Police Department.
Mamandi being a Muslim is going to be catnip to the extremists. Instead of worrying about policies, these idiots resort to racial politics.
Now is not the time to do gatekeeping. Trump is single handedly collapsing the United States as we speak. We are close to World War III and a civil war because of these fools.
Michelle Obama, the wife of the 44th President Of The United States is a lawyer, former first lady, media personality, podcaster and activist. She is the first African American woman to be the U.S. first lady.
Happy birthday to the woman who lights up every room she walks into. I love you, Miche. pic.twitter.com/2zEjufWEoy
Her husband, Barack Obama along with daughters Malia and Sasha will celebrate.
He posted a photo of the couple together on Instagram, writing, "Happy birthday to the woman who lights up every room she walks into. I love you, Miche."
The birthday milestone comes as she recently released her latest book, "The Look."
The former first lady recently sat down with "Good Morning America" co-anchor Robin Roberts to discuss the project, which offers an in-depth and personal exploration of her iconic style during her years in the White House.
Dogg Pound co-founder and longtime Death Row representative Kurupt (aka Young Gotti) was hospitalized for an undisclosed illness. Big Snoop, Daz and his family are calling for a speedy recovery and prayers.
The 53 year old rapper was recently released in stable condition after being held in medical treatment for a few weeks.
While the junk food media did not disclose the conditions based on medical privacy, it could be kidney failure, seizures or something else.
Kurupt and Daz Dillinger are the core members of The Dogg Pound. They had originally signed to Death Row Records shortly after Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg released their debut albums.
Dogg Food is one of the best albums of the mid-1990s.
Kurupt, Daz, Snoop, Nate Dogg and Soopafly made up the Pound.
Monday night, Daz Dillinger shouted out his "big brother" and asked fans to wish him a speedy recovery.
He wrote, "GOD SAID WE SHALL LIVE & NOT DIE ... I need everybody to hit Kurupt and let them know that we love HIM from his little brother Daz."
Earlier this month, Kurupt let fans know his hopes for 2026, sharing a picture of Kendrick Lamar on Instagram.
He captioned the pic, "This how we bring n tha New Year wit #KENDRICK and Family."
Kendrick has gone on the record calling the "Who Ride Wit Us" artist one of the greatest rappers of all time.
Kurupt is the father of Natina Reed's son. Natina was the lead singer of Blaque. She died two days before her birthday in a car crash in Atlanta. She was allegedly under the influence of drugs and alcohol when she walked in the way of a vehicle.
Natina allegedly was strolling in the A when she couldn't make bank. Kurupt had to take emergency custody of their son.
Kurupt had almost started the second East Coast - West Coast rap feud when DMX allegedly slept with two of his women (i.e. Natina and Foxy Brown). Kurupt warned that if X wants smoke, it was happening.
Kurupt would eventually make peace with DMX before his passing.
I don't dance on people's graves. However, I will not shed a tear knowing this wicked bitch is gone from the earth. I hope she gets what's coming to her.
A woman scorned is a woman using the legal route to get revenge.
A woman is suing former Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema for breaking up her marriage.
She claims that then independent senator Sinema got a hold of her husband, her personal bodyguard and introduced him into a lifestyle of partying and molly.
Infamous for her curtsey when voting down the increase of the minimum wage, Sinema became one of the most unpopular senators in Arizona. She became the first Arizonan elected woman, openly bisexual and fashionably obstinate senator in modern history.
Sinema has faced protesters during her six years as Arizona's senior senator.
Sinema along with former West Virginia senator Joe Manchin blocked most of former president Joe Biden's agenda. They refused to end cloture and back the Build Back Better bill at a point when progressives demanded swift action. They gave each other a high five when discussing preserving cloture. They spoke in Davos with former senator Mitt Romney of Utah about the need for bipartisanship.
In short, protect the status quo and maintain white supremacy.
Sinema, Manchin and current independent senator Pennsylvania's John Fetterman are racist obstructionists. Sinema went independent in 2022. Manchin went independent in 2024. Fetterman went independent in late 2025.
Their support for Israel, refusal to endorse Kamala Harris, blocking progressive policies and endorsing Republican based policies have made it nearly impossible for Democrats to unite. Also weak leadership from New York's Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer made it difficult.
She was considering running for reelection. However, Arizona Democrats were thirsty for a challenge. Ruben Gallego challenged her and polled better. She announced she would retire. It excited Democrats.
Sinema's bodyguard was also her boyfriend. He was married and his wife is exposing their asses.
When President Donald J. Trump, then a former member endorsed Kari Lake, a former news reporter and gubernatorial candidate as the senate nominee, Gallego easily beaten her. Sinema would barely won had she ran for reelection. Trump refused to back moderate at best Martha McSally, a former Republican House and Senate member who later was defeated by Sinema and current senator Mark Kelly of Arizona.
Matthew Ammel is the alleged boyfriend of the 49 year old former senator.
Matthew and Heather Ammel had “a good and loving marriage” with “genuine love and affection” before Sinema interfered, pursuing Matthew Ammel despite knowing he was married, Heather Ammel alleges in her lawsuit.
The Arizona lawmaker’s head of security hired Matthew Ammel after he retired from the Army in 2022, according to the lawsuit, which says he accompanied her on travels to destinations including Napa Valley, California; Las Vegas and Saudi Arabia.
In early 2024, Ammel’s wife discovered “romantic and lascivious” messages he’d exchanged with Sinema over the Signal messaging app. That summer, he stopped wearing his wedding ring and Sinema gave him a job as a national security fellow in her Senate office while he continued to work for her campaign as a bodyguard, the lawsuit alleges.
Sinema also paid for psychedelic treatment for Ammel, who has struggled with post-traumatic stress, substance abuse and traumatic brain injuries tied to his military deployments in Afghanistan and the Middle East, according to the lawsuit.
Wicked chemistry.
Sinema and her attorney did not respond to requests for comment.
The lawsuit was quietly filed late last year in Moore County, North Carolina. It captured global attention this week when it was moved to federal court.
North Carolina is one of a handful of states that allow jilted spouses to sue for “alienation of affection” to seek damages from a third party responsible for the breakup of their marriage.
Sinema left Congress after the 2024 election. She declined to seek reelection to the Senate, capping a tumultuous single term in which she alienated liberals and left the Democratic Party to become an independent.
She now works for the Washington-based legal and lobbying firm Hogan Lovells. She has lobbied for data center development and research funding for the psychedelic drug ibogaine.
Sinema has appeared on cable as a Fox contributor.
I don't know what is going on with Blogger but I am going to continue on until it collapses.
Anyway, María Machado came to the United States to give a high five to President Donald J. Trump. At the behest of Machado and the Israeli regime, Trump ordered an invasion of Venezuela. He ended up abducting its president Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
The actions committed by the United States were a war crime. He did not notify Congress which has the authority to declare war. Trump like his predecessors, bypasses Congress in committing war. It is a clear violation of international law. A flagrant violation of sovereignty. It sets the stage for a potential attempt to have Trump assassinated.
Machado came with her Nobel Peace Prize. She gave it to Trump.
It infuriated the Nobel Prize Committee demanding that Machado takes the honor seriously or return the award.
It was a controversial decision to give it to Machado. She is a pro Israeli, far right opposition leader who tried to overthrow Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavéz.
She is a violent opposition leader who was barred from leading. If the United States thinks its going to install her in place of Maduro, she will trigger a civil war.
The United States trying to "liberate" every nation they don't like is getting old.
Trump has abandoned his "America First" for "I can do whatever I want."
The international community is getting sick and tired of Trump, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin.
Trump was upset he was snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize. He decided to take it out on former president Barack Obama and Martin Luther King Jr.
They won the award respectfully.
Trump, the leader of chaos and sorrow was snubbed because he is a felon. He also tried to overthrow the U.S. government. He launched illegal airstrikes in numerous countries. He was chaotic during his first term when dealing with Afghanistan.
Trump and former president Joe Biden are complicit to a genocide being conducted by Israel in real time. They have given aid and cover to this apartheid ethnostate.
Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to take over her country after the U.S. ousted President Nicolás Maduro.
This is why Trump doesn't deserve any awards for peace.
The Nobel Institute has said Machado could not give her prize to Trump, an honor that he has coveted. Even if it the gesture proves to be purely symbolic, it was extraordinary given that Trump has effectively sidelined Machado, who has long been the face of resistance in Venezuela. He has signaled his willingness to work with acting President Delcy Rodríguez, who had been Maduro’s second in command.
“I presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize,” Machado told reporters after leaving the White House and heading to Capitol Hill. She said she had done so “as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom.”
Trump confirmed later on social media that Machado had left the medal for him to keep, and he said it was an honor to meet her.
“She is a wonderful woman who has been through so much. María presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done,” Trump said in his post. “Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you María!”
The White House later posted a photo of Machado standing next to Trump in the Oval Office as he holds the medal in a large frame. A text in the frame reads, “Presented as a personal symbol of gratitude on behalf of the Venezuelan people in recognition of President Trump’s principled and decisive action to secure a free Venezuela.”
Trump has raised doubts about his stated commitment to backing democratic rule in Venezuela, giving no timetable on when elections might be held. Machado indicated that he had provided few specifics on that front during their discussion.
She did not provide more information on what was said.
Venezuela was already free. I don't get why Americans are so obsessed with trying to solve the world's problems. Most Americans did not support Trump's actions in Venezuela.
‘We can count on President Trump’
After the closed-door meeting, Machado greeted dozens of cheering supporters waiting for her near the White House gates, stopping to hug many.
“We can count on President Trump,” she told them without elaborating, prompting some to briefly chant, “Thank you, Trump.”
Before her visit to Washington, Machado had not been seen in public since she traveled last month to Norway, where her daughter received the peace prize on her behalf. She had spent 11 months in hiding in Venezuela before she appeared in Norway after the ceremony.
The jubilant scene after her meeting with Trump stood in contrast to political realities in Venezuela. Rodríguez remains in charge of day-to-day government operations, along with others in Maduro’s inner circle. In her first state of the union speech Thursday, the interim president promoted the resumption of diplomatic ties between the historic adversaries and advocated for opening the state-run oil industry to more foreign investment after Trump pledged to seize control of Venezuelan crude sales.
Trump has said it would be difficult for Machado to lead because she “doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country.” Her party is widely believed to have won 2024 elections rejected by Maduro.
So basically, Machado is an election denier like Trump.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called Machado “a remarkable and brave voice” but also said the meeting didn’t mean Trump’s opinion of her changed, calling it “a realistic assessment.”
Leavitt told reporters that Trump supported new Venezuelan elections “when the time is right” but did not say when he thought that might be.
A ‘frank and positive discussion’ about Venezuela
Leavitt said Machado had sought the face-to-face meeting without setting expectations for what would occur. She spent about two and a half hours at the White House.
“I don’t think he needs to hear anything from Ms. Machado,” the press secretary said while the meeting was still going on, other than to have a ”frank and positive discussion about what’s taking place in Venezuela.”
After leaving the White House, Machado went on to a closed-door meeting with a bipartisan group of senators.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said Machado told them that “if there’s not some progress, real progress towards a transition in power, and/or elections in the next several months, we should all be worried.”
“She reminded us that Delcy Rodríguez is, in many ways, worse than Maduro,” he added.
Asked if Machado had heard any commitment from the White House on holding elections in Venezuela, Murphy said, “No, I don’t think she got any commitment from them.”
Sen. Bernie Moreno, an Ohio Republican, was exultant following the meeting, saying Machado “delivered a message that loud and clear: What President Trump did was the most important, significant event in Latin America. That getting rid of Maduro was absolutely essential.”
Machado’s Washington stop coincided with U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea seizing another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says had ties to Venezuela. It is part of a broader U.S. effort to take control of the South American country’s oil after U.S. forces captured Maduro and his wife less than two weeks ago at a heavily guarded compound in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and brought them to New York to stand trial on drug trafficking charges.
Leavitt said Venezuela’s interim authorities have been fully cooperating with the Trump administration and noted that Rodríguez’s government said it planned to release more prisoners detained under Maduro. Among those released were five Americans this week.
Trump said Wednesday that he had a “great conversation” with Rodríguez, their first since Maduro was ousted.
Machado doesn’t get the nod from Trump
Just hours after Maduro’s capture, Trump said of Machado that “it would be very tough for her to be the leader.” Machado had steered a careful course to avoid offending Trump, notably after winning the peace prize, and had sought to cultivate relationships with him and key administration voices like Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The industrial engineer and daughter of a steel magnate, Machado began challenging the ruling party in 2004, when the nongovernmental organization she co-founded, Súmate, promoted a referendum to recall then-President Hugo Chávez. The initiative failed, and Machado and other Súmate executives were charged with conspiracy.
A year later, she drew the anger of Chávez and his allies again for traveling to Washington to meet President George W. Bush, whom Chávez considered an adversary.
Almost two decades later, she marshaled millions of Venezuelans to reject Chávez’s successor, Maduro, for another term in the 2024 election. But ruling party-loyal electoral authorities declared him the winner despite ample credible evidence to the contrary. Ensuing anti-government protests ended in a brutal crackdown.
He gave them a Super Bowl win and they still "forced" him out.
On Monday, the Pittsburgh Steelers lost to the Houston Texans eliminating them in the first round of the AFC Wild Card series. It was a loss on home soil. Quite embarrassing.
It was a blowout.
Aaron Rodgers, 41 was handed another defeat. His antics may soon come to an end. He has not hinted retirement yet but the writing is on the wall.
Mike Tomlin, on the other hand was given two options: Retire or face cannon fire.
After 19 seasons, Tomlin has put the whistle down.
Over the next 19 seasons, Tomlin wrote his own chapter with one of the NFL’s marquee franchises, winning a Super Bowl and going to another while becoming one of the most respected voices — if idiosyncratic — voices in the game.
Asked repeatedly what separated Tomlin from his peers, his players pointed to his consistency. Tomlin was the same coach day after day, season after season.
That consistency, far too often of late, also bled into the results. And after yet another quick playoff exit, Tomlin used his voice one last time to tell team president Art Rooney II that it was time to try something else.
The longest-tenured head coach in major American professional sports stepped down from his job leading the Steelers on Tuesday, a seismic shift that will have ripple effects throughout the league.
“I am deeply grateful to Art Rooney II and the late Ambassador (Dan) Rooney for their trust and support,” Tomlin said in a statement released by the team. “I am also thankful to the players who gave everything they had every day, and to the coaches and staff whose commitment and dedication made this journey so meaningful.”
Tomlin’s early success, however, leveled off into a pattern of solid if not always spectacular play, followed by a playoff cameo that ended with the Steelers looking outclassed at every turn.
The 53-year-old Tomlin won 193 regular-season games in Pittsburgh, tied with Hall of Famer Chuck Noll for the most victories in franchise history. But their resumes diverged when it comes to the playoffs. While Noll won four Super Bowls in the 1970s, Tomlin went 8-12 in the postseason, losing each of his last seven playoff games, all by double-digit margins.
The final came Monday night, when the AFC North champions squandered some early momentum before getting drilled 30-6 by Houston, the most lopsided home playoff loss in team history.
There were chants of “Fire Tomlin!” as the clock kicked toward zero, though they weren’t nearly as impassioned as they were in November while the Steelers were getting pushed around by Buffalo in a loss that dropped their record to 6-6.
Tomlin did his best to tune out the noise and his team responded, the way it seemingly always did during his tenure. Pittsburgh won four of its final five games, including a sweep of Baltimore that gave the club its first AFC North title since 2020.
The optimism, however, dimmed once the Texans asserted themselves. The NFL’s top-ranked defense suffocated Aaron Rodgers and Pittsburgh’s offense while the league’s highest-paid defense wilted late.
It was a familiar and frustrating pattern for a place where, as Tomlin noted not long after his introduction, “the standard is the standard.”
And while that remains the case for a team whose members walk by six Lombardi Trophies every day on the way to work, the results had plateaued. The Steelers finished with 9 or 10 wins in each of Tomlin’s final five seasons, often doing just enough to squeak into the playoffs before being exposed by a more talented opponent.
Tomlin had two years left on the contract extension he signed in 2024, with the club holding the option for 2027. Should Tomlin want to return to coaching in the NFL before his contract with the Steelers expired, the club could seek compensation.
Either way, his departure leaves the Steelers looking for a head coach for just the third time since they hired Noll in 1969.
Pittsburgh likely won’t lack for attractive candidates. The club’s stability combined with its ability to remain competitive even without a franchise quarterback for the last half-decade means whoever gets the job will be given substantial leeway to get the team back to the top.
The announcement came as somewhat of a shock. In the final question he fielded as head coach, Tomlin painted an upbeat picture about the team’s future.
“I’m always feel optimistic about what we’re capable of doing in terms of putting together a group, certainly,” he said Monday night.
And with that, he stepped off the dais and into a future that will not lack for options. Long one of the most confident and imminently quotable people in football — his weekly news conferences were peppered with what became known as “Tomlin-isms” — he could step into television if he wants, as Cowher did after retiring.
Yet it seems just as likely that he will have his choice of jobs if or when he wants to coach again. Players defended Tomlin — almost uniformly popular within the locker room — to the end.
Tight end Pat Freiermuth called Tomlin “one of the best coaches I’ll ever play for, probably the best. In my opinion his message hasn’t got stale. I believe in him.”
Freiermuth added that his belief extended to general manager Omar Khan, who will be in charge of finding the right person for one of the most attractive coaching gigs in any league.
Tomlin’s two predecessors are in the Hall of Fame. Tomlin could very well find himself getting fitted for a gold jacket of his own. Yet rather than try to come back next year and break Noll’s record for regular-season wins, he opted to, as Noll once famously put it, “get on with his life’s work.”
And the Steelers will try to find the right person to help them return to the standard that the franchise lives by, one it clutched at but never quite grasped during Tomlin’s final years.
Betar crossed the line. Letitia James erased it. Betar cannot operate in New York.
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani will not have to worry too much about this far right extremist group harassing him and his wife. They won't have to worry about the threats and doxxing campaigns.
Pro Palestinian protesters were often met with Jewish extremism. They would harass them, pass out pagers and smears of being aligned with terrorists.
Israel has sowed discourse worldwide.
An end to it is coming. Young Americans are tired of the United States backing Israel.
New York state attorney general Liticia James has dropped the hammer on a controversial Jewish extremist group. James announced a settlement ending Betar US’s (Betar) campaign of violence, harassment, and intimidation against Arab, Muslim, and Jewish New Yorkers after an extensive investigation by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) found that the group repeatedly targeted individuals based on religion and national origin. Betar is a New York-based organization labeled an “extremist group” by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for its “embrace of Islamophobia and harass[ment] of Muslims.” The OAG investigation uncovered evidence of Betar’s widespread persecution of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish New Yorkers, driven by broad hostility and animus toward several protected groups, in violation of New York civil rights laws. The settlement requires Betar to immediately cease instigating or encouraging violence against individuals, threatening protesters, and harassing individuals exercising their civil rights, and subjects the organization to a suspended $50,000 penalty that will be enforced if Betar violates the agreement. Betar is seeking to dissolve its not-for-profit corporation and has indicated to OAG that it is winding down operations in New York.
“New York will not tolerate organizations that use fear, violence, and intimidation to silence free expression or target people because of who they are,” said Attorney General James. “My office’s investigation uncovered an alarming and illegal pattern of bias-motivated harassment and violence designed to terrorize communities and shut down lawful protest. This behavior is unacceptable, and it is not who we are as New Yorkers. My office will continue to use every tool available to protect all New Yorkers’ civil rights and public safety.”
The OAG launched an investigation in March 2025 after receiving multiple complaints alleging that Betar and its members engaged in violent and threatening conduct directed at Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish individuals, particularly in connection with protests related to Israel and Palestine. Betar is a New York not-for-profit organization that describes itself as an “activist movement” and has publicly called on supporters to “attend and disrupt” pro-Palestinian protests. Despite soliciting donations in New York through its website and social media, Betar has never registered with OAG’s Charities Bureau.
The OAG investigation determined that Betar engaged in a pattern of violence and harassment driven by explicit hostility toward protected groups. The OAG uncovered numerous public and private statements by Betar leadership and members expressing anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and anti-Muslim animus, including repeated use of slurs and demeaning language. For example, members repeatedly referred to keffiyehs – traditional Palestinian scarves – as “rape rags” and claimed that Muslims “hate America.” Betar publicly circulated content celebrating violence against Palestinians, including social media posts mocking civilian deaths, declaring hatred toward Gazans, and calling for further bloodshed. In one instance, the group posted that the number of babies who had died in Gaza was “not enough,” writing, “we demand blood in Gaza.”
Tish James took on the NRA, Trump Organization and Betar. They ended up dissolving or being forced to pay hefty fines for fraud.
The investigation also determined that Betar targeted Jewish individuals who expressed views that the group opposed. Betar threatened to place Jewish activists on lists to be shared with foreign authorities in an effort to bar them from travel and intimidate them into silence. In private communications, Betar leadership wrote, “of course we place Jews on lists,” and confirmed that the group targeted Jewish New Yorkers they deemed insufficiently aligned with Betar’s extremist ideology.
Betar also used its public platform to threaten individuals with deportation and attempt to suppress protected speech. The organization repeatedly threatened to report protesters to immigration enforcement officials and publicly claimed that it used facial recognition software to compile deportation lists for the federal government. Even though Betar later disavowed these claims, OAG found that this conduct was designed to intimidate protesters and unlawfully chill the exercise of First Amendment rights.
The OAG uncovered evidence showing multiple incidents of physical intimidation and assault. In early 2025, Betar-affiliated individuals repeatedly approached people perceived to be Muslim or supportive of Palestinian causes and attempted to force “beepers” onto them, an act intended to threaten and terrorize, referencing a recent overseas operation involving explosive pagers. At one New York City university, a Betar member repeatedly harassed students wearing hijabs or keffiyehs, following them and demanding they accept a beeper despite their visible distress. In another incident, a Betar member followed a Jewish academic on a public street, forcibly shoved a beeper into his pocket against his will, and verbally abused him. The OAG found that Betar members repeatedly threatened academics with ongoing harassment and explicitly warned at least one individual that Betar followers would come to their home.
The OAG investigation also found that Betar promoted and encouraged violence, even urging its members to bring weapons to protests, including knives, pepper spray, and attack dogs. Ahead of a February 18, 2025 protest in Brooklyn, Betar called on supporters to “fight back” against what it labeled “terrorists” and urged followers to bring pit bulls. Violence erupted at that protest, during which at least one person was stabbed. Betar subsequently boasted online that protesters had been beaten, and privately celebrated injuries inflicted during the event. After a member of Betar’s national leadership physically struck a woman wearing a keffiyeh, the group celebrated the incident online, sharing video footage on its social media.
Attorney General James asserts that Betar’s conduct has consistently violated New York’s civil rights laws, including statutes that prohibit bias-motivated violence, harassment, and intimidation, as well as discrimination against individuals exercising their rights to protest and engage in peaceful assembly. Under the agreement announced today, Betar is permanently barred from instigating or encouraging violence, physically assaulting or threatening individuals, harassing protesters, or damaging others’ property based on protected characteristics. Betar agreed to a suspended $50,000 monetary penalty, which will be enforced if the organization violates the agreement, and must submit annual compliance reports to OAG for three years. If Betar fails to comply, Attorney General James may immediately pursue enforcement, additional penalties, and further legal action. how was it?
