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Today a motion was unsealed in the Ghislaine Maxwell case that give us serious concerns about the government’s case against Maxwell. I’ll make this brief. The unsealed motion had to do with Maxwell’s recently rejected motion for release on bail. It had been sealed because it references documents that are still under seal. You can read the full motion for release on bail here. I won’t go through the whole motion - only the parts that stand out. First, Maxwell makes the accusation that “the government concedes it cannot establish that either Ms. Maxwell or Epstein ever caused, or sought...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday downplayed concerns from centrist Democrats who warned party leaders against potentially overturning the election result of a closely contested House seat in Iowa. The House Administration Committee is considering a challenge from Democrat Rita Hart, who is contesting the results in Iowa’s 2nd District after the state certified that Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks won by just six votes. Pelosi maintained that the House has the authority to adjudicate contested elections After a recount, Iowa certified the tally and Miller-Meeks was seated in January. Pelosi today argued that she’s not obligated to seat certified election...

PBSNewshour's Anna Nawaz nods her head to senator Rep. Veronica Escobar saying: "The border is being used by Republicans as a prop." PBSNewsHour, March 25, 2021. 6:14 PM. Nawaz is daughter of Pakistanis.

Why did Boulder shooting suspect Ahmad Al Aliwi Al Issa of Arvada, Colorado, go to a King Soopers grocery store 25 miles away from his home to carry out his attack? The investigation of the murder Monday of 10 people is only beginning. But the indication that the Syrian immigrant had ISIS sympathies combined with the super market’s advertised kosher offerings for its significant Jewish clientele has drawn attention on social media. In a Twitter string, a variety of users noted the store in south Boulder is in an area with many Jewish families. And the shooting took place in...

PANAMA CITY BEACH — Lexi Bradshaw remembers Timothy "Tim" Ackerman as a thrill-seeker who loved being a dad. Ackerman, a 31-year-old Panama City Beach resident and Bradshaw's ex-husband, died Sunday evening during a BASE jump from the 23rd floor of the Sunrise Beach Resort on Front Beach Road, according to the Panama City Beach Police Department. Authorities suspect his parachute malfunctioned as he fell. Timothy "Tim" Ackerman, a 31-year-old Panama City Beach resident who died in a BASE jumping accident Sunday evening, is seen with his 10-year-old daughter, Evie, and his 8-year-old son, Grayson. "He 100% would not have done...

Several young lawmakers in Rhode Island have complained that the state's senate dress code is 'oppressive' and biased towards white people. The Rhode Island Senate approved a dress code in a 29-7 vote on Tuesday, mandating that elected officials wear 'proper and appropriate attire, such as blouses, dress slacks and collared shirts with an accompanying jacket'. And while most Democrats voted to pass the measure, seven left-wing senators dissented, including newly elected Sen. Jonathan Acosta, 31. Speaking on the floor during a debate on the issue, Acosta claimed it was 'super inappropriate' for a white, male senate president to 'bestow...

Speaking on the future of the filibuster at the first press conference of his presidency, President Joe Biden, 78, said he came to the Senate “120 years ago.” “With regard to the filibuster, I believe we should go back to the position of the filibuster that existed just when I came to the United State’s Senate 120 years ago.” Biden became a Senator when he was 29 and served for 36 years. Many top Democrats have argued that the filibuster is a ‘racist’ practice and have advocated for its demise. Republicans, like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, however, say that...

Pelosi and the House Democrats are actively trying to steal a House seat in Iowa. The Democrats stole the White House and Senate with millions of fraudulent ballots, Zuckerberg drop boxes and ballot harvesting so what’s stopping them from stealing a US House of Representatives seat in Iowa? Speaker Pelosi bragged about working to steal a certified GOP Iowa House seat and said it’s her right to seat and unseat any member of Congress she wants. “Now, if I wanted to be unfair, I wouldn’t have seated the Republican from Iowa because that was my right on the opening day,”...

Explanation: Before Perseverance there was Curiosity. In fact, the Curiosity rover accomplished the first sky crane maneuver touchdown on Mars on August 5, 2012. March 2, 2021 marked Curiosity's 3,048th martian day operating on the surface of the Red Planet. This 360 degree panorama from sol 3048 is a mosaic of 149 frames from Curiosity's Mastcam above the rover's deck. It includes 23 frames of icy, thin, high clouds drifting through the martian sky. The cloudy sky frames were recorded throughout that martian day and are digitally stitched together in the panoramic view. Near center is a layered and streaked...

Somebody send over to CNN and their media reporters Oliver Darcy and Brian Stelter the journalistic ethics guide. Not the whole thing; just page one. Or maybe just paragraph one. Circle the part that says, “It is unethical to use your journalistic position to obtain special favors from public officials.” Then ask: Why hasn’t Chris Cuomo been fired? What he’s done is the very definition of corruption. Look it up in your Merriam-Webster: there’s now a picture of Chris Cuomo holding up a giant cotton swab. If, during the darkest days of the pandemic, Donald Trump had taken scarce COVID...

A local Minnesota theater has cancelled a production of Roger & Hammerstein's Cinderella because its cast was 'too white'. Chanhassen Dinner Theatres was scheduled to stage the show later this year before its artistic director stepped in to slam its lack of diversity. 'It was 98 percent white, ' the artistic director, Michael Brindisi, told the Pioneer Press on Wednesday after looking at who had been cast. However, Chanhassen - located southwest of Minneapolis - has a population that is overwhelming white, and the racial demographics of the cast were not strikingly different from the city as a whole. According...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Thursday signed a law banning transgender women and girls from competing in school sports teams consistent with their gender identity. The Republican governor made the state the second so far this year to enact such a restriction, despite objections from medical and child-welfare groups that it would have devastating impacts on transgender youth. “This will help promote and maintain fairness in women’s sporting events,” Hutchinson said in a statement released by his office.

I really do think that the easy availability of guns in our society does help explain this...I'm not against gun ownership, I believe in the 2nd Amendment, but I do believe in reasonable restrictions. I would like to know how this guy got his gun. Does he have a mental illness? Was it easily available? Was it lawfully purchased? I think that's an issue that has to be debated.

Fox News contributor and former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer on Wednesday predicted that Senate Democrats will move to nix the Senate filibuster on gun reform legislation after multiple deadly mass shootings. During an interview on Fox’s “America’s Newsroom,” Fleischer, who served under former President George W. Bush’s administration, said that gun control is one of the issues at the “core” of the Democratic Party. “I think this is going to be an issue that breaks the Senate,” he said. “It is so deep and fervent inside the Democratic Party that gun control is the answer.” Fleischer went on...

In Georgia, a judge has agreed that the group “Voter GA” can go ahead and inspect Fulton County Georgia ballots from the 2020 election for Fulton County. This time, they will use the method developed by Jovan Pulitzer. Pulitzer is an inventor, best known for the bar code you find on groceries and other products found in stores. He claims that by using his method you no longer need to examine the machines used in the counting to discover fraud. The vote in Georgia comes down to Fulton County and so if the count there is correct, there is no...

Maskless priest has homeschooling mom of 11 arrested for not masking in churchKANSAS CITY, Kansas, March 25, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — It was Halloween when Jane Bernardel, a homeschooling mom of 11, was hauled away by police for praying in an empty church without a mask.It’s a Bernardel family tradition to attend Vespers and recitations of the litany of the saints on Halloween, the eve of the great feast of All Saints, to sanctify a day they see as having been secularized. On Halloween 2020, Bernardel and some of her children prayed at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Kansas...

Politico reports that Hunter Biden lied on Form 4473 while buying a gun in 2018, and then, some time later, had his girlfriend throw that gun in the trash can across the street from a school: On Oct. 23, 2018, President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and daughter in law Hallie were involved in a bizarre incident in which Hallie took Hunter’s gun and threw it in a trash can behind a grocery store, only to return later to find it gone. ansas Medical-Conscience Bill Why Stay in Afghanistan Just a Little Longer? The Same Old Joe Biden Biden Is Lying...

A San Jose woman faces hate crime and battery charges after allegedly going on a racist tirade at a McDonald’s, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said.Alena Jenkins, 40, allegedly harassed a worker and manager at a McDonald’s in Mountain View, calling them "stupid and F-ing" Mexicans, the District Attorney’s Office said in a statement published Wednesday.

For a state that couldn’t pass a modest measure on Education Savings Accounts just two years ago, it’s a breathtaking turnaround. What changed? In February 2018, public school teachers brought West Virginia to its knees. Seeking pay raises and better health plans, unions had declared a “work stoppage” in all 55 counties, shuttering every public school in the state. The “stoppage” — which was in fact an unlawful strike — dragged on for nine school days, costing children nearly two weeks of instruction. Under pressure, the Republican legislature rushed through a pay raise to pacify the unions. The victorious teachers...

Abp. Viganò on truth over fear: COVID-19, the vaccine, and the Great ResetThis Letter reflects in large measure the intervention I will be giving to attendees of the upcoming summit “Truth Over Fear: Covid-19, the Vaccine, and the Great Reset,” on April 30-May 1, 2021, organized by Patrick Coffin. This vital event features over 20 of the world's top doctors, researchers, and attorneys, and will deliver a scientific and common sense approach to the pseudo-pandemic. All people have a right to informed consent. March 25, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — What we have learned so far about the pseudo-pandemic gives us the...