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While it’s expected the state will mirror updated COVID-19 guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gov. J.B. Pritzker insists he’ll continue disaster proclamations to capture more federal dollars.

(Translation) Longshoremen's union leader Carlos Sánchez Ortiz and several employees of [International Longshoremen's Association] 1740 who work in the docks of San Juan face seven charges, among them fraud, labor extortion, and illegal appropriation, U.S. Attorney in Puerto Rico Stephen Muldrow announced. The group also faces charges of conspiracy, violation of the Organized Crime Law, and money-laundering. It is alleged that the accused appropriated over $1 million. Six of the arrested are males and one is a female. The accused face up to 20 years in prison for the crimes they presumably committed.

I suggest;When the Conservatives overwhelmingly take control of the political United States,and they ponder who, what and when to do with the enemies that have stacked up around us over the last 14 years,instead of forming a committee to study a person or situation to determine what to do,we instead call for a Grand Jury investigation.We already know the culprits,We already know the charges,and we already know what we believe should be the penalty.Let's bypass every middle man and go right for the jugular.They've attacked this nation is SO many ways not the least, most obvious and latest being the...

SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY LUKE 1:39–56 Friends, today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The dogma of the Assumption of Mary describes the full salvation of this prime disciple of Jesus. In the Apostles’ Creed, we speak of our hope for "the resurrection of the body." Mary, assumed body and soul into heaven, has experienced precisely this resurrection and hence becomes a sign of hope for the rest of the human race. When we speak of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother’s body, we are not envisioning a journey...

A Florida man who filmed himself walking on hot thermals in Yellowstone National Park earlier this month has been officially cited for a violation of federal law and ordered to appear in-person at the U.S. District Court in Yellowstone on July 27. Matt Manzari, who told Cowboy State Daily that he created the video as a joke, broke the law by leaving the park’s boardwalk and walking on the thermal features near Old Faithful on July 1. As has been customary in these cases, the defendant must appear in court in-person. The motivational speaker from Clermont, Florida, previously told Cowboy...

Pfizer Inc Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said on Monday he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was experiencing very mild symptoms. Bourla, 60, said he had started a course of the company's oral COVID-19 antiviral treatment, Paxlovid, and was isolating and following all public health precautions. "I am confident that I will have a speedy recovery," Bourla said in a statement. Several public figures have tested positive for the infectious disease in the past few months including U.S. President Joe Biden and his chief medical adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci.

Here's some good advice from the Democrats for you if you are poor.I, for one, am going to become a famous painter...and buy a mansion and an electric vehicle.

Russia has abandoned 20,000 troops near Kherson in the face of a Ukrainian counter-attack, the regional governor has claimed. Vitaly Kim said Russia is relocating command posts on the west bank of the Dnipro River to the east, leaving 'stupid orcs' - his term for Kremlin soldiers - behind. Ukraine has already blown up all three bridges under Russian control connecting the two banks, meaning its soldiers on the west side have no easy way of resupplying, reinforcing, or retreating as Kyiv's men continue their advance. Kim, the governor of Mykolaiv which sits on the west bank, said Monday that...

BREAKING: True The Vote Releases Information Given To FBI Months Ago – China Has Information on 1.8 Million US Election Workers On Server In Wuhan Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gab TV, GETTR, Truth Social True the Vote held a private, invite-only event over the weekend. CDMedia had a reporter at the conference conducted at an undisclosed location. Information was released that True the Vote many months ago stumbled upon a server in China which True the Vote says holds a great deal of personal information on 1.8 million U.S. election workers. The data was brought...

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, the Kremlin inadvertently put its military forces in an unsustainable position, ordering them to take on more operations than they could bear. It had nearly all its soldiers surge simultaneously and rapidly into Ukraine to fight along multiple fronts. It did so without taking necessary protective measures, such as clearing routes of explosives. It had its forces advance at an unsustainable pace. As a result, Russian troops were vulnerable to ambushes, counterattacks, and severe logistical problems that cost the military enormous numbers of soldiers and equipment. That initial error was caused by the Kremlin’s...

I would like to let you know that I have tested positive for #COVID19. I am thankful to have received four doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and I am feeling well while experiencing very mild symptoms. I am isolating and have started a course of Paxlovid.

Aug. 14—A man who was arrested Aug. 4 for allegedly committing an incestuous and forcible rape of a child in Franklin County that day had been released less than three months before from the Morgan County Jail with zero bond on a charge of forcible sexual abuse of a child. The Morgan County district attorney and the circuit judge who authorized the defendant's release from jail disagree on who, if anyone, was to blame. Raymond Matthew McKinney, 35, was arrested Dec. 5 after being indicted by a Morgan County grand jury for sexual contact with a child under the age...

The 2020 Election was one of the worst events in US history. It will be remembered as the day the US constitution was broken and fraudsters stole our election. In less than three weeks all evidence from that election will be destroyed. The 2020 Election was arguably the most damaging event in US history and certainly the most horrific in modern times. The US Constitution was discarded as villainous and power-hungry people planned for and eventually stole the election. Then they worked hard to cover it up. It took the Democrats and their senile candidate with a lot of help...

A mountain rescue team has been called up to Britain’s highest mountain to save a dog that refused to go any further. Maggie, a 35kg Turkish Akbash dog, was unable to continue the descent from Ben Nevis with her owners because her paws were in pain. The three women walking with the dog had tried carrying her down the 4,413ft mountain but were forced to admit defeat around the halfway mark. Lochaber Mountain Rescue came to the dog’s rescue on Saturday night, despite already facing multiple callouts for other emergencies.

Apparently, the remedy in Chicago to being unable to shoot accurately is to use your car. https://twitter.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1558950585440866305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1558950585440866305%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url= Here's another angle (graphic) https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1558855196435963906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1558855196435963906%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=

A poll about whether the raid was ok.

President Joe Biden’s communications staff members worry he could lose some of his political “momentum” in August while on vacation. A memo made public from political advisor Jen O’Malley Dillon and senior advisor Anita Dunn to White House chief of staff Ron Klain warned the White House must redouble its efforts to prevent an August “slump” facing the president. “For many administrations, August can be a momentum killer,” the memo warns. “For this team, August is going to be a momentum builder as we come out of last week…” Biden’s staff is eager to spin the latest spurt of legislative...

The World Economic Forum shared a report last week outlining a plan to mitigate “the dark world of online harm” by using human and artificial intelligence to censor bad actors who produce and promote child abuse, disinformation, and hate speech. Inbal Goldberger, vice president of Trust and Safety at ActiveFence, a company that detects malicious online content, published an op-ed on the global organization’s website, offering a solution to online abuse. Such solutions would enable a blend of AI and so-called “subject matter experts” to “detect nuanced, novel online abuses at scale, before they reach mainstream platforms.” Goldberger said an...

VIDEOSometimes I like to just get away from politics such as will happen when I go on my Caribbean cruise sans internet connection in a few weeks. Such was also the case when I clicked on a video about how Andy Griffith's hometown of Mt. Airy, North Carolina, reinvented itself into the fictional Mayberry which aired last year on CBS Sunday Morning. Although I expected a nice nostalgic trip down memory lane, Ted Koppel ruined it with his absurdly misplaced obsession with President Donald Trump. Yes, Ted, you definitely suffer from TDS but why do you insist on displaying the...

When is a False Flag False? By J. Johnson Just a passing question for the false flag waivers out there (no insult intended): As there is always talk around here about that ubiquitous 2nd civil war, yet any attack (Cincinnati FBI, self-Jihad at Capitol Hill, etc.) are immediately labeled ‘false-flag’. So what happens when a false flag – isn’t? Yes, I know the drill. “the false flag will be used to as the excuse round up guns, conservatives, money, and eventually make what’s left of us eat bugs…”, and such musings in Freeper land and elsewhere. I get it. Well,...