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He was arrested after a roughly 5-hour standoff with police Atlanta police have identified the man arrested last week after allegedly spray-painting swastikas on the city's rainbow crosswalks that honor the gay community. Police identified Jonah Sampson, 30, as the man who allegedly spray-painted swastikas on Atlanta’s Midtown rainbow crosswalks. Authorities believe he is also responsible for graffiti that was found on a monument at the Federal Reserve Building, Fox 5 reported. Sampson was arrested in Atlanta on Friday outside his apartment after a roughly five-hour standoff with a SWAT team. Jail records show Sampson is facing three charges of...

Cernovich @Cernovich They are blaming the vaccine on Trump now. That’s an indicator of how The Science (TM) going in the real world.

A wall drawing of Keith Haring’s signature “Radiant Baby” is coming to auction. Haring drew the figure, a crawling infant surrounded by a halo, in gold marker above a light switch on the wall of his childhood bedroom in his hometown of Kutztown, Pennsylvania. The drawing will hit the auction block on September 14, when it will be offered as part of a postwar and contemporary art sale at the New Jersey auction house Rago/Wright’s. The drawing, which measures 5 inches in height, will be offered for sale still affixed to a portion of the blue wall on which it...

The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. returned a more than 1,000-year-old handwritten gospel to the Greek Orthodox Church on Tuesday. It was transferred to an Eastern Orthodox Church during a private ceremony in New York. The manuscript, which had been looted from a Greek Monastery in World War I and was acquired by the museum at a Christie’s auction in 2011, is expected to be repatriated next month to the Kosinitza Monastery in northern Greece. There, for hundreds of years, it had been used in religious services, along with more than 400 volumes, before being taken by Bulgarian...

The final rule unveiled Wednesday is similar to a proposed rule DHS released in 2021. There are some minor changes, such as a clarification that expunged criminal convictions and immigration offenses are not automatic disqualifiers for the program. DHS received 16,361 comments during the rule’s public comment period. The rule preserves long-standing eligibility requirements for the program. To qualify, immigrants must have arrived in the U.S. by age 16 and before June 2007, must have studied at a U.S. school or served in the military, and must lack a serious criminal record. The rule also retains the existing process for...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) believes there is “zero chance” that President Joe Biden will seek a second term in the White House. “I think there is zero chance that Joe Biden runs again in 2024. He is obviously too old. He is not able to do the job today,” Cruz told Fox News in an interview published Wednesday. “The degree of his mental impairment, at this point, is deeply disturbing. This is a man who shakes hands with the empty air. This is a man who talks to the Easter Bunny.” “Biden is not up to the job today, and...

A political action committee (PAC) has donated $650,000 to the Smithsonian Institution, with most of that money going toward the creation of portraits of Donald and Melania Trump. The paintings will ultimately go to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., where all other recent Presidential portraits currently reside. This is the first time a former President’s portrait has been financed by a political organization. Over the weekend, Trump’s Save America PAC disclosed a $650,000 “charitable donation” to the Smithsonian Institution with the Federal Election Commission. The funds will be used to “support the artists’ fees, shipping, framing, installation, and...

Kiev has the right to siphon off supplies destined for the EU, a Ukrainian politician claims. The former chairman of Ukraine’s parliament, the Rada, Dmitry Razumkov has stated that Kiev has the right to confiscate Russian gas that flows to the EU through Ukraine, and sell it in order to solve the country’s economic problems. “The gas that is transported through the territory of Ukraine is Russian. To the border with Europe, it is Russian gas. And if we act in accordance with the law, we e should confiscate it,” he said in a video posted on Facebook on Friday....

I’m on the road and just got this. Is this legit? I am very skeptical. Seems like a lot of conjecture.Steve KirschAug 23 I just got this message:From Ana Maria Mihalcea,Dear Colleagues,I interviewed a Brazilian Biologist and Researcher, Felipe Reitz, who is doing Computerized Thermographic Imaging in the C19 injected and correlating this with Live Blood Analysis. The clots are everywhere, even in young athletes in their 20’s, it is absolutely heartbreakingly shocking. These are completely asymptomatic. For the love of humanity, please look at these images and the video we did.As an Internal Medicine Physician of over 20 years’...

Pfizer's COVID-19 pill appears to provide little or no benefit for younger adults, while still reducing the risk of hospitalisation and death for high-risk seniors, according to a large study published on Wednesday (Aug 24). The results from a 109,000-patient Israeli study are likely to renew questions about the US government's use of Paxlovid, which has become the go-to treatment for COVID-19 due to its at-home convenience. The Biden administration has spent more than US$10 billion purchasing the drug and making it available at thousands of pharmacies through its test-and-treat initiative. The researchers found that Paxlovid reduced hospitalisations among people...

Teeth from long-dead people and animals are divulging the history of modern-day pathogens.Ancient DNA extracted from the teeth of humans who lived long ago is yielding new information about pathogens past and present. In one of the latest studies, researchers uncovered and sequenced ancient herpes genomes for the first time, from the teeth of long-dead Europeans. The strain of herpes virus that causes lip sores in people today — called HSV-1 — was once thought to have emerged in Africa more than 50,000 years ago. But the new data, published in Science Advances on 27 July1, indicate that its origin...

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A progressive Virginia prosecutor this year dropped charges against a felon with a history of gun charges. Months later, that felon killed two innocent men. In July, Francis Rose shot two "innocent bystanders" in the head while robbing an apartment complex in Alexandria, Va., according to police. In February, he was freed from jail by the office of Arlington County commonwealth’s attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti (D.). Rose, who was already on probation for illegally carrying a weapon in Washington, D.C., was arrested in October 2020 for possession of a firearm and possession of cocaine and fentanyl with intent to distribute. The...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Justice Department on Wednesday released under court order all of a 2019 memo https://www.justice.gov/file/1528466/download in which two top officials advised then-Attorney General William Barr not to charge then-President Donald Trump with obstructing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. The March 24, 2019, memo was written by Steven Engel, then head of the department's Office of Legal Counsel, and Edward O'Callaghan, another top department official. They wrote that charging Trump with obstruction would be problematic because the entire first section of Mueller's report did not find sufficient evidence that Trump or...

Scientists debate evidence for a micro-clot hypothesis that has some people pursuing potentially risky treatments.When Lara Hawthorne, an illustrator in Bristol, UK, began developing strange symptoms after having COVID-19, she hoped that they weren’t due to the virus. Her initial illness had been mild. “I’ve been triple vaccinated. I felt quite protected,” she says. But months later, she was still sick with a variety of often debilitating symptoms: earaches, tinnitus, congestion, headaches, vertigo, heart palpitations, muscle pain and more. On some days, Hawthorne felt so weak that she could not get out of bed. When she finally saw her physician,...

Are you kidding me? Let's be clear. You can't trust these people until they've admitted they've killed over 500,000 Americans and injured millions more with their bad advice. The ridiculous requirements to get the new vaccineOne of my readers, Douglas, just wrote me the following email after reading this excellent substack article by Jordan Schachtel on the requirements for the new jab:It is getting dumber and dumber.First of all, there is no scientific basis to require vaccination with the prior shot first. Not to mention, the new one is bi-valent (for some reason I still don’t understand why it is...

Explanation: To some, it looks like a wheel of a cart. In fact, because of its outward appearance, the presence of a central galaxy, and its connection with what looks like the spokes of a wheel, the galaxy on the right is known as the Cartwheel Galaxy. To others, however, it looks like a complicated interaction between galaxies awaiting explanation. Along with the two galaxies on the left, the Cartwheel is part of a group of galaxies about 500 million light years away in the constellation Sculptor. The large galaxy's rim spans over 100,000 light years and is composed of...

[Catholic Caucus] The “Latin Novus Ordo” Is Not the SolutionIn the wake of Traditionis Custodes, some have made the good-faith suggestion that a “solution” for a future depleted of traditional Latin Masses is “doing the Novus Ordo in Latin.”This is an absolute non-starter for several reasons.First, the missals are notably different. All you have to do is compare them to see that the Order of Mass and the Propers of the Mass are largely divergent. The classic article here is Matthew Hazell’s, demonstrating that only 13% of the orations of the old missal are found intact in the new one...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the heels of news that the Biden Administration is forgiving tens of thousands of dollars' worth of student loan debt, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi began pushing the White House to offer the same relief to Americans with outstanding bar tabs. "If little Johnny Gender Studies can get they/their student loan debt forgiven, then hard-drinking Americans should have similar benefits," said Ms. Pelosi as she staggered through the hallways outside the House Chamber. "It's not right that people should be saddled with enormous bar tabs for their entire lives." Though some lawmakers voiced support for Ms. Pelosi's...

"Hey, Si-Woo, as soon as the funds hit my Zurich account, I will leave you-know-what under the ball washer at the 11th hole at that certain golf course." That's the kind of 'Spy Who Came in From the Cold' scenario the liberal media are dreaming of as it speculated over whether Donald Trump might have sold "ultra-secret" documents. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.