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A detention lieutenant was fired from the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office in Texas for attending the Trump rally in DC on January 6, even though she never entered the Capitol. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, who fired Roxanne Mathai for attending the rally, campaigned for Joe Biden during the 2020 election. Mathai had posted about being at the rally on social media, but never entered the building. She even specifically posted that she had no desire to enter the building and break the law. Though she was simply exercising her First Amendment rights and attending a rally hosted by the...

Letter sent months before deadly Florida collapse warned damage to condo building was accelerating A correspondence from the board president of Champlain Towers South, part of which unexpectedly crashed to the ground last week in Surfside, Florida, describes the decay at the building since 2018 saying, "the observable damage such as in the garage has gotten significantly worse since the initial inspection."Board President Jean Wodnicki addressed the letter to neighbors April 9. "The concrete deterioration is accelerating. The roof situation got much worse, so extensive roof repairs had to be incorporated," says the letter, acquired by CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."...Wodnicki...

Link only. Text is almost impossible to copy. That being said, this extensive, long DM article is just about the most complete to date. Along with its text, it includes a massive collection of photos and videos.

A woke school superintendent in a ritzy part of Connecticut has resigned just days after agreeing to a new $225,000 contract — with parents blaming him for “alienating” them with his “strong liberal ideologies,” according to a report. Rydell Harrison announced his resignation from the district covering Easton and Redding in a letter Friday blaming “a number of unique challenges” that led him to question if the job was “a good fit for me.” It came less than two weeks after he agreed to a new contract to stay for another two years, with an annual salary of $225,000 plus...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki dismissed a question Tuesday about Fox News host and Daily Caller cofounder Tucker Carlson’s claims that the NSA is spying on him. Carlson made the assertions during Monday’s broadcast of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” — saying that the NSA was monitoring his communications in an effort to get his show taken off the air. Psaki was asked about Tucker’s claims when she spoke with reporters on Air Force One just hours later. “Tucker Carlson said that the NSA is spying on him. Is the administration aware of any espionage or listening efforts on US citizens...

“Jonathan Karl’s story on Slow Moving Bill Barr is made-up beyond any level imaginable. It is, in other words, Fake News! I lost confidence in Bill Barr long before the 2020 Presidential Election Scam. It was when he dismissed and didn’t act on the very powerful Horowitz Report, and instead gave everything over to John Durham, who has seemingly disappeared from the planet. Can you even believe a report coming out during the Biden Administration? We caught them but unfortunately didn’t have an Attorney General who was capable of acting and wouldn’t go against his friends in Washington, D.C. Barr...

The Biden Doctrine: American Spreadeagle Surrender is the overriding theme of Biden’s foreign policy.It has become a bit trite to use the common refrain that America under Joe Biden’s weak and frail presidency has “put the United States last, not first.” It is, in fact, much worse. We have gone full spreadeagle to use a sexual metaphor. America is getting screwed royally on just about every front. The Urban Dictionary has a hip but lewd definition, if you need one. This is a coherent foreign policy of a great superpower? No, it’s worse than any lame Obama-style apology tour or...

President Joe Biden undermined his campaign-trail claim of being a master deal-maker when the 36-year senator was forced to walk back his pledge to sign a bipartisan infrastructure bill only if Democrats quickly passed an even bigger one without Republican votes. Angst on Capitol Hill among the GOP and Democratic senators with whom Biden and his top aides negotiated had to be stamped out with a weekend statement divorcing the bipartisan deal from what might be a $6 trillion measure sure to anger the 50 Republican senators poised to vote against it. But Biden stepped on his own bipartisan victory...

SNIP How could Covid vaccines inflict so much and such diverse harm? Perhaps because of two fatally flawed assumptions; that the spike protein is harmless and that it remains in the injection site. Recent research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston shows that the spike protein circulates in the plasma of vaccine recipients for up to 28 days and researchers at the Salk Institute showed that the spike protein on its own, without the virus, damages the cells in the walls of blood vessels, triggering clotting and also attacking platelets, so that the blood can’t clot. Dr Stephanie Seneff,...

A vote Tuesday by Travis County Commissioners will allow county staff to fly the the LGBTQIA+ Pride Flag at any Travis County government building annually during Pride month. Travis County Judge Andy Brown, LGBTQIA+ leaders and commissioners held a Pride flag-raising ceremony at the Travis County Government Administration building in downtown Austin to commemorate the moment Tuesday.

Rapper Lil Nas X is at the center of another controversy after showing up to the BET Awards donning a dress featuring a distinct, controversial message, depicting what the outfit’s designer described as “parallelism between Nazism” and the Catholic church.

The Los Angeles County health agency suggested to residents that they wear masks—regardless of vaccination status—due to the so-called “Delta” COVID-19 variant.

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/oregon-cat-stealing-items-neighbors-sign-warns The picture is absolutely hilarious. I had a Heinz-57 dog, all black with white paws, white ring around nose and white tip on a very long-hair tail, back when I was ten years old. Used to pull me around on a skateboard. He was awesome, smart and such a character. " Lucky" went about lifting newspapers, shoes, etc. I made a sign and drew his picture on it. Mom had my sister and me pull a wagon about the neighborhood with all the things Lucky took away to reunite them. If I can find a picture I'll post it...

The Guardian reported this week that a majority of the recent COVID deaths in the UK had received the COVID vaccination. That doesn’t sound like much of a vaccine, does it?But please continue to take your vaccines.The far left Guardian reported:A MailOnline headline on 13 June read: “Study shows 29% of the 42 people who have died after catching the new strain had BOTH vaccinations.”In Public Health England’s technical briefing on 25 June, that figure had risen to 43% (50 of 117), with the majority (60%) having received at least one dose.It could sound worrying that the majority of people...

Survivor describes escape from Florida condo collapse: ‘I kept going, screaming ... I want to live’ ... Monteagudo, 64, was asleep Thursday morning when a strange feeling woke her. “It’s like something supernatural woke me up. I felt something strange, and I thought, 'Oh, I forgot to close the sliding door to the balcony, and the wind is making the noise,’ ” she said. “I tried to close the sliding door, and it felt like the building was moving. The door wouldn’t close.” Then Monteagudo heard a crack. There was a line in the wall coming down from the ceiling...

If You Can Change Your Sex Can You Change Your Race?For all those who believe that a biological male can become a female (to the point of changing one’s birth certificate), I have an honest question. If you can change your sex, can you change your race?But this is not an abstract, philosophical question. Not at all.British Male Has “Come Out” as Non-Binary KoreanRather, as reported in the Daily Caller: A white, British social media influencer began identifying as “transracial” after undergoing 18 surgeries to transition his race and gender, according to a series of videos.Oli London underwent 18 cosmetic...

A new poll shows a majority of San Francisco residents think it is time to increase police presence in areas affected by high rates of crime. The annual San Francisco Chamber of Commerce report found 76 percent of residents want more police in high-crime areas, and 80 percent believe crime has accelerated. Polling was done by EMC Research from May 25 to 31, and respondents affirmed this sentiment “across gender, age, ethnicity, party affiliation, and neighborhood, and homeownership status.” 250 registered voters were polled. 60 percent of respondents agreed the city ought to keep funding law enforcement academies and 88...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — As San Francisco tries to bounce back from the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, crime and homelessness now rank among the highest levels of concerns among local residents, many who are contemplating relocating, according to a new poll. The poll was released by the SF Chamber of Commerce and based on feedback from more than 500 San Francisco residents who are registered to vote. It found that more than 40 percent say they plan to move out of the city in the next few years. Lindsay Stevens just finished moving out over the weekend....

Don’t Bring Wokeism to Our Country!France Rejects American-Style Culture WarsEarlier this year, the New York Times ran an article about criticisms of the “out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and its attendant cancel culture.” They talked about a group alleging that the Woke were using race, gender, and post-colonialism to “bulldoze’’ all subjects, reducing whole academic disciplines to trite cliches and simple binaries.Who was this anti-woke group the New York Times saw fit to report on? The answer might surprise you. It was “French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists” including President Emmanuel Macron.French concern about Wokeism was echoed again this...

Although a record-high 89% of Americans now say the coronavirus situation is improving, most are not yet ready to declare the pandemic over in the U.S. More than twice as many think the pandemic is not yet over (71%) than think it is over (29%).Republicans are far more likely (57%) than Democrats (4%) to say the pandemic is over, but significant differences also exist by gender, age and region of the country.These findings are from Gallup's June 14-20 probability-based web panel survey, which was conducted as increased vaccinations in the U.S. resulted in declining COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. These...