Monthly Archives: November 2021

Dollar Store Chain To Sell Most Items At $1.25

CNN Business reports: Dollar Tree will soon be $1.25 tree. The company — one of America’s last remaining true dollar stores — said Tuesday it will raise prices from $1 to $1.25 on the majority of its products by the first quarter of 2022. The change is a sign of the pressures low-cost retailers face holding down prices during a …

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Feds Seek Three Years For NYC Wannabe Proud Boy Who Pleaded Guilty To Death Threat Against Warnock

The New York Daily News reports: A Queens Proud Boys supporter who wrote on social media that Sen. Raphael Warnock should be “swinging with the f—ing fish” deserves up to three years in prison, federal prosecutors wrote Tuesday. Eduard Florea, 41, pleaded guilty to posting the chilling threat online the day before the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, …

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Riot Suspect Nabbed Thanks To Mommy’s FB Posts

The Huffington Post reports: The FBI has arrested a supporter of former President Donald Trump who sprayed cops with pepper spray, smashed out a window and broke into the U.S. Capitol before he went to basic training for the U.S. Air Force. Aiden Bilyard was arrested in Raleigh, North Carolina, according to court records. He faces a host of charges, …

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Alex Jones Says He’ll Plead The Fifth Before Riot Panel: “I Don’t Want To Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison”

“They will claim I lie about something to the committee, which isn’t even true. I wouldn’t lie. I’m probably going to declare the 5th. “Not because I’ve done anything wrong, but because these people are political criminals that have an axe to grind and have been bragging everywhere they want to put me in prison, okay? “I don’t intend on …

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Martial Arts Expert Awarded Honorary Black Belt

The Hill reports: Former President Trump received an honorary ninth dan belt certificate in taekwondo from the sport’s main governing body in Florida over the weekend. Issued by Kukkiwon president Lee Dong-sup, Trump received the honorary belt at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Kukkiwon posted the exchange to its Facebook page, where Trump can be seen wearing a …

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House Capitol Riot Committee Subpoenas Leaders Of Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, 1st Amendment Praetorian

Politico reports: The Jan. 6 select committee on Tuesday subpoenaed the leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, extremist groups that responded to Donald Trump’s call to descend on Washington and played central roles in the attack on the Capitol. The House committee issued subpoenas Tuesday to Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, as …

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Jury Finds Charlottesville Nazi Rally Organizers Liable

The Washington Post reports: Prominent white supremacists Richard Spencer, Jason Kessler and Christopher Cantwell and others engaged in a conspiracy in advance of the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, a jury has ruled. The jury did not reach a verdict on two federal conspiracy charges, but did find that every defendant was liable for civil conspiracy …

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Rep. Devin Nunes Loses Yet Another Defamation Suit

Mediaite reports: A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down Rep. Devin Nunes’ (R-CA) effort to sue a reporter for sharing a story he had authored on social media. The 2018 story Lizza authored for Esquire, “Milking the System,” including allegations that Nunes’ family had moved their farming operation to Iowa, and that they had employed illegal immigrants. Nunes filed …

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Chile On Verge Of Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage

The Associated Press reports: A measure to legalize marriage and adoption by same-sex couples was approved by the lower house of Chile’s Congress on Tuesday, moving it close to final adoption. It had already passed the Senate. The bill approved 101-30 now awaits only final modifications related to the rights of same sex couples. President Sebastián Piñera has indicated he …

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Lindell Accuses RNC Of Thwarting His SCOTUS Petition

The Daily Beast reports: MyPillow chief and 2020 dead-ender Mike Lindell has long promised that he would file an election-fraud complaint with the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning. But now he claims to have missed that goal because he was silenced by Republican National Committee Chairperson Ronna McDaniel. It was a last-minute pressure campaign orchestrated by the RNC and McDaniel …

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Lil Nas X Scores Grammy Nods In All Top Categories

Billboard Magazine reports: Olivia Rodrigo and FINNEAS are each nominated in each of the Big Four categories at the 64th annual Grammy Awards – album, record and song of the year plus best new artist. Rodrigo was honored for her debut album, Sour, and its smash single “drivers license.” FINNEAS is up for producing and co-writing work with his sister, …

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Liberty Counsel Issues Annual Xmas Retail Boycott List: Barnes & Noble, Dick’s, Gap, Target, TJ Maxx, And More

Just in via press release: Years ago, Walmart had banned its employees from even responding with the phrase “Merry Christmas.” Now the company has moved to the “Nice List,” completely embracing the Christmas season. Thankfully, many other companies have done the same to acknowledge Christ’s birth during the season. Belk, JCPenney, Walmart, Staples and Kohl’s are examples of stores on …

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Franklin Graham: Jesus Helps You Win Football Games

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: The Indianapolis Colts are incredibly blessed to have a man like this as head coach. After their upset victory on Sunday over the Buffalo Bills, Coach Frank Reich didn’t hesitate to recognize the One who helped him and the team get to that point. At the press conference he quoted from the song, “In …

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GA Jury Begins Deliberations In Ahmaud Arbery Case

ABC News reports: “Your oath requires that you will decide this case based on the evidence,” Judge Timothy Walmsley told the jury before sending the panel off to begin their deliberations. The jury got the case after Linda Dunikoski, the Cobb County, Georgia, assistant district attorney appointed as a special prosecutor in the Glynn County case, took two hours to …

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McConaughey To Decide “Shortly” On Texas Gov Bid

“I am not until I am — OK? Is this something I’ve been thinking about for 20 years, and I know what I want to do, but I’m just holding on to my answer? No. “It’s a new embassy of leadership that I have really been doing my diligence to study, to look into, to question what it is, what …

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Anti-LGBT TX Rep Drops Bid For State Attorney General

The Texas Tribune reports: State Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, is ending his campaign for attorney general and running for Tarrant County district attorney instead. Krause told The Texas Tribune that he began seriously considering a district attorney campaign after the incumbent, Sharon Wilson, “unexpectedly” announced her retirement earlier this month. He said he “started getting tons of calls” to …

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Guilfoyle Boasted: I Raised Millions For Pre-Riot Rally

ProPublica reports: Kimberly Guilfoyle, a top fundraiser for former President Donald Trump and the girlfriend of his son Donald Trump Jr., boasted to a GOP operative that she had raised $3 million for the rally that helped fuel the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In a series of text messages sent on Jan. 4 to Katrina Pierson, the White House liaison …

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Rioter Who Stole Pelosi’s Lectern Pleads Guilty [VIDEO]

The Brandenton Herald reports: The Parrish man who posed for photos after stealing Nancy Pelosi’s lectern during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has pleaded guilty to illegally entering the Capitol that day. Adam Johnson, 36, was quickly identified after photos of him smiling and waving while carrying the lectern went viral, and other Manatee County residents recognized him and submitted …

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Soap Opera Writes Out Anti-Vax Star: I’m Leaving Town

TV Insider reports: Two weeks after news broke that Ingo Rademacher was out at General Hospital following his recent anti-vax and transphobic remarks, the ABC daytime soap has written him off of the show. The last episode for Rademacher, who plays Jasper “Jax” Jacks, aired on November 22, and he said goodbye in a scene with his ex-wife Carly. He …

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DOJ Reaches $127M Settlement With Parkland Families

The Washington Post reports: The federal government has reached a tentative $127.5 million settlement with the families of victims of a 2018 mass shooting at a Florida high school, who sued over the FBI’s failure to act on warnings that the gunman was planning an attack, a person familiar with the agreement said. The U.S. Justice Department filed a notice …

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