Monthly Archives: November 2021

SF Cop Who Defied City’s Mandate Dies Of Something

Yahoo News reports: A California police officer died of COVID-19 while he was on leave for not meeting San Francisco’s Nov. 1 vaccination deadline. San Francisco Police Department Officer Jack Nyce tested positive for the virus on Nov. 2 and died Saturday, Nov. 6. His symptoms were so severe on Nov. 6 that he was taken to a hospital in …

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QAnon Rioter Gets 41 Months For Assaulting Police

CNN reports: A New Jersey gym owner and former MMA fighter who punched a police officer during the January 6 riot was sentenced to 41 months in prison on Wednesday, becoming the first rioter sentenced for violence against the police during the attack. Scott Fairlamb pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer and obstructing an official proceeding in August. “I …

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900K Kids Have Gotten Vax In First Week Of Availability

NPR reports: Beloved stuffed animals in hand, they lined up at schools, pop-up clinics and children’s hospitals to do something that little kids generally hate to do: get a shot. COVID vaccinations for 5- to 11-year-olds began in earnest late last week, ramping up over the weekend and early this week. By the end of the day on Wednesday, about …

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GOP US House Nominee Declares Himself Eligible To Hold Office Despite Florida Rules On Felon Candidates

Florida Politico reports: Republican congressional candidate Jason Mariner is fully eligible to hold office in the United States House of Representatives regardless of his past felony convictions, his campaign declared Wednesday. Mariner, who won the Republican Primary Election last week in Florida’s 20th Congressional District, had his eligibility called into question because the Florida Constitution bans felons from holding office …

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Catholic Priest Gets Life For Child Porn, Sex Trafficking

From the Department of Justice: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Robert D. McWilliams, 41, of Strongsville, Ohio, was sentenced today by Judge Sara Lioi to life in prison. McWilliams, a Northeast Ohio-area Catholic Priest at the time of the offense conduct, previously pleaded guilty to two counts of sex trafficking of a minor, three counts of sexual …

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LIVE VIDEO: Rittenhouse Testifies In His Own Defense

The New York Times reports: Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two people and wounded a third during last year’s unrest in Kenosha, Wis., took the witness stand Wednesday morning, a decision that could prove pivotal to the outcome of the closely watched homicide trial. The move is a risky legal calculation for the defense, which has centered its case on …

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NFL Fines Anti-Vax QB For Violating COVID Protocols

Yahoo Sports reports: The Green Bay Packers are paying the price of allowing Aaron Rodgers and potentially others to openly violate COVID-19 protocols. The NFL fined the Packers $300,000 on Tuesday after reviewing the team’s COVID-19 protocols, according to ESPN’s Rob Demovsky. The league is also reportedly fining Rodgers and wide receiver Allen Lazard $14,560 each. The NFL’s review found …

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Trump Endorses Far-Right Idaho Lt Gov For Governor

Boise’s NBC News affiliate reports: Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Idaho Lt. Gov. and current Idaho gubernatorial candidate Janice McGeachin for governor, according to Trump’s Twitter spokesperson Liz Harrington. In a tweet, Harrington shared a screenshot of an email from the former president where he states he is “giving Janice McGeachin my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the …

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Labor Dept Reports Highest Inflation Rate Since 1990

The New York Times reports: Consumer inflation surged in October as fuel costs picked up, supply chains remained under pressure and rents moved higher — bad news for economic policymakers at the Federal Reserve and for the Biden White House, which had been emphasizing a recent slowdown in price gains. Inflation picked up to 0.9 percent last month from September, …

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Russia Flies Bombers Over Belarus Amid Migrant Crisis

Reuters reports: Russia blamed the European Union on Wednesday for the migrant crisis on the border between Belarus and Poland, accusing it of trying to “strangle” Belarus with plans to close part of the frontier and urging it to talk directly with Minsk. As migrants from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa made new attempts to break into Poland overnight, …

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Gosar Deletes Twitter Video Depicting Killing Of AOC

The Hill reports: Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) has apparently deleted an altered anime video that he shared depicting himself and other GOP lawmakers attacking President Biden and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), following political blowback from top Democrats. The video, which was first posted Monday to Gosar’s official Twitter account, did not appear on his profile Tuesday evening. A Twitter spokesperson …

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Anti-Vax Soap Opera Star Axed After Defying Mandate

Variety reports: Longtime “General Hospital” star Ingo Rademacher is out at the long-running ABC soap opera because he declined to comply with the production’s vaccine mandate. His last episode is scheduled to air on Nov. 22, Variety confirmed. News of his departure comes amid backlash to a transphobic meme and anti-vax sentiment he posted on social media Sunday. Rademacher has …

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Restaurant Review Helps Feds Collar DC Riot Suspect

Denver’s CBS News affiliate reports: Thomas Patrick Hamner was arrested Tuesday, according to court documents, and charged with federal counts of civil disorder; assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon or inflicting bodily injury; and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds. Videos show the man alleged to be Hamner fighting with Capitol and Metropolitan …

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Newsmax Nutbag Permanently Banned By Twitter

Mediaite reports: Newsmax White House Correspondent Emerald Robinson is not enjoying a good week. She has recently been benched by the right-wing cable news network, and after a brief suspension, resurfaced on Twitter Tuesday continuing to push nonsense about the Covid-19 vaccines. But Robinson immediately received another suspension by the social media platform again, and now it appears that her …

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POLL: 76% Say Facebook Makes US Society Worse

CNN reports: Roughly three-quarters of adults believe Facebook is making American society worse, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with about half saying they know somebody who was persuaded to believe in a conspiracy theory because of the site’s content. Americans say, 76% to 11%, that Facebook makes society worse, not better, according to the survey. Another 13% …

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Judge Rules Riot Committee Can Have Trump’s Docs

The Washington Post reports: A federal judge in Washington ruled late Tuesday that hundreds of pages of Trump White House records can be turned over to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol despite the former president’s objections. The decision by U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan clears the way for the release of government …

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REPORT: Dr. Oz Considering Run For US Senate In PA

People Magazine reports: Dr. Mehmet Oz is staying “focused” on his show amid reports that he is laying the groundwork to run for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. A spokesperson for The Dr. Oz Show tells PEOPLE that the television personality and cardiothoracic surgeon “has no announcement at this time” regarding a potential run for office as a Republican. “Since …

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Prosecutors Seek 51 Months For “QAnon Shaman”

Politico reports: Jacob Chansley — the QAnon adherent who infamously stormed the Senate chamber shirtless and wearing horns on Jan. 6 — should go to prison for 51 months, prosecutors said Tuesday in a late-night sentencing memo carrying their stiffest recommendation yet in any case stemming from the insurrection. Images of Chansley on the Senate rostrum, where he scrawled a …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Variety reports: Unity Software, a 3D game-development platform, is expanding its VFX footprint in a big way with the $1.625 billion acquisition of the technology division of Peter Jackson’s New Zealand-based Weta Digital. The deal promises to make the tools used to create Gollum for Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings,” Caesar from “The Planet of the Apes” and characters …

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Loser Mocks “Old Crow McConnell” Over Infrastructure

The Hill reports: “Why is it that Old Crow Mitch McConnell voted for a terrible Democrat Socialist Infrastructure Plan, and induced others in his Party to do likewise, when he was incapable of getting a great Infrastructure Plan wanting to be put forward by me and the Republican Party?” Trump vented in a statement. Trump promised a $1 trillion infrastructure …

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