Monthly Archives: March 2021

FBI Charges “Florida Flag Jacket” Man In Capitol Riot

Law & Crime reports: According to online court records, Robert Scott Palmer, 53, of Largo, Fla., is charged with assaulting, resisting, or impending officers or employees; civil disorder; and entering in or remaining upon restricted buildings or grounds with relation to the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. The FBI posted images showing the man’s …

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Police: Extremists Increasingly Targeting Cell Towers

The Intercept reports: As the Biden administration turns its attention to an infrastructure system beset with problems, a strange new issue has emerged: conspiracy theorists. That’s according to a detailed intelligence report, produced by the New York Police Department and obtained by The Intercept, which finds that cellphone towers and other critical infrastructure have become an attractive target for conspiracy …

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Rush Limbaugh’s Radio Slot Goes To Dan Bongino

Via press release from Westwood One: Cumulus Media’s Westwood One today announced The Dan Bongino Show, a new three-hour radio program airing Monday-Friday from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET. The news and opinion show will launch May 24 in markets nationwide, including CUMULUS news stations in top-ten markets New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. …

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Trump’s Net Worth Fell $700 Million During Presidency

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump upended the American presidency after stepping away from the company that made him rich and famous. Four years later, returning to his empire after losing the White House, what he finds may upend him. Trump’s net worth is down to $2.3 billion from $3 billion when he became president, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. …

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Army Denies Medals For Soldier Pardoned By Trump

USA Today reports: The Army has rejected an appeal to return medals for valor to retired Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, a Special Forces soldier former President Donald Trump pardoned for alleged murder in Afghanistan. It was one of three high-profile cases in which Trump interceded on behalf of troops accused of war crimes. The decision regarding Golsteyn, reached last June, was …

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Tucker Carlson: Immigrants Are Making America “Ugly”

Media Matters has the transcript: TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Unlike other disasters, mass illegal immigration is permanent. No one ever really gets sent home. Over the past 30 years, the population of the United States has exploded by nearly 100 million people, mostly due to immigration. Were you even aware that that happened? You’re not supposed to say a word about …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

NBC News reports: Conductor James Levine, who ruled over the Metropolitan Opera for more than four decades before being eased aside when his health declined and then was fired for sexual improprieties, has died. He was 77. Levine died March 9 in Palm Springs, California, of natural causes, his physician of 17 years, Dr. Len Horovitz, said Wednesday. Levine made …

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Police Spox In GA Killings Posted Racist COVID Shirts

The Daily Beast reports: A Cherokee County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office spokesperson came under fire Wednesday afternoon for pinning the deadly Tuesday shooting rampage that left eight dead—including six Asian women—on a 21-year-old white man’s “very bad day.” “Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did,” Jay Baker said during the joint news conference with …

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12 GOP Reps Vote “No” On Medals For Capitol Police

USA Today reports: The House voted Wednesday to award Capitol police, Metropolitan police and other law enforcement agencies with the Congressional Gold Medal, for protecting lawmakers, staffers, reporters and visitors from insurrectionists on Jan. 6. About 140 police officers were injured during the attack, including 15 who were hospitalized, when rioters broke into the building, vandalized offices and interrupted the …

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Cops Raid Home Of Disgraced FL GOP Ex-Senator Over Alleged Role In Planting Of “Shill” Candidate In 2020

Miami’s ABC News reports: A search warrant was executed Wednesday morning at the home of former Florida Sen. Frank Artiles as part of the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office’s investigation into whether he illegally funded a planted candidate in the November election. Sources say the warrant involves the search of his electronics, including his cell phone and computer, and the contents …

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Anti-Gay Tanzanian President, Who Said COVID Can Be Cured With Prayer And Smoothies, Dies Of Something

The New York Times reports: President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a populist leader who played down the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic and steered his country away from democratic ideals, died on Wednesday at a hospital in the port city of Dar es Salaam. He was 61. His death was announced on television by Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who …

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Man Wanted By Texas Police Apprehended By Secret Service Near VP Residence, Long Gun And Ammo In Car

CNBC reports:  A Texas man wanted by the police was stopped by the U.S. Secret Service and arrested Wednesday afternoon near the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, authorities said. Police said they found a rifle and ammunition in that man’s car, which was parked some distance away in a garage in downtown Washington. The man, Paul Murray, 31, of …

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Prophet: I Visited Heaven And Saw That Jesus Built St. Patrick A Mansion With 5-Foot-Tall Singing Shamrocks

“Patrick was a great winner of souls. And he is — I can tell you — he is in heaven. I have seen his mansion. And because Jesus also has a sense of humor, he built Patrick’s mansion in a field of five-foot-tall shamrocks. I saw him in heaven, and so he’s got all these shamrocks that sing to him …

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Kentucky Lawmakers Limit Gov’s Power To Fill Senate Vacancies, Successors Must Now Be From Same Party

The Hill reports: The Kentucky legislature has passed a bill that would require a governor to fill a vacant U.S. Senate seat with a member of the departed senator’s party in a move sure to spark the political rumor mill around Frankfort. The bill would require a sitting governor to choose a replacement for a vacant Senate seat from a …

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WI GOP Honors Limbaugh, Rejects Black History Month

Madison’s ABC News affiliate reports: Wisconsin Senate Republicans voted 18-12 Tuesday to pass a resolution honoring Rush Limbaugh, the divisive conservative commentator and radio host who died February 17. Two Republicans, Sen. Dale Kooyenga and Eric Wimberger, did not vote. In the same Senate session, Republicans turned down Democratic efforts to include slavery and Black history in a bill requiring …

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Eric Trump Jumped Vax Line With Chicago Employees

Block Club Chicago reports: A top executive of a West Side hospital in Chicago bragged about vaccinating Eric Trump the same day the hospital vaccinated workers at Trump Tower Downtown — where the executive owns a condo. In a photo obtained by Block Club Chicago, Dr. Anosh Ahmed, chief operating officer of Loretto Hospital, poses with a smiling Trump, the …

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“Face Diaper” Woman Arrested Again At Office Depot

Houston’s ABC News affiliate reports: A woman accused of resisting a Galveston police officer earlier this month after being asked to leave a bank over her refusal to wear a face mask has been arrested again. Terry Lynn Wright, 65, was taken into custody Wednesday by Texas City police at an Office Depot, just six days after her arrest on …

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GOP Ohio AG Sues Biden Admin Over Stimulus Money

The Washington Post reports: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost sued the Biden administration Wednesday over its $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, alleging the federal government sought to impose “unconstitutional” limits on states’ ability to access some of the aid. The lawsuit from Yost, a Republican, follows a day after 21 other GOP attorneys general issued their own veiled legal threat …

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FBI Charges Proud Boys Leaders In Four States

The New York Times reports: F.B.I. agents have arrested two organizers for the Proud Boys in Philadelphia and North Carolina, and prosecutors filed new charges against two other prominent members of the far-right group in Florida and Washington State as federal authorities continued their crackdown on its leadership ranks. With the new conspiracy indictment, prosecutors have now brought charges against …

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House Votes 222-204 Along Party Lines To Lift 1982 Deadline For States To Ratify Equal Rights Amendment

Axios reports: The House voted 222-204 on Wednesday in another attempt to eliminate a deadline passed in 1982 that has prevented the Equal Rights Amendment from becoming part of the Constitution. The big picture: The decades-long fight over the amendment to afford men and women equal rights has been revived after Virginia claimed last year to be the final state …

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