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The semi-automatic rifle used to kill five people and injure nine at the Louisville bank shooting on Monday will likely be auctioned off and be “back on the streets,” Mayor Craig Greenberg said. Greenberg — who has called for an end to the gun violence plaguing his city — said current Kentucky law allows guns seized by the police to go to auction, including those used in violent crimes. “The assault rifle that killed five of our neighbors will one day be auctioned off,” the mayor said Tuesday. “That murder weapon will be back on the streets.” The Louisville Metro...

When the coronavirus first hit most western governments pushed the panic button and opted for a totalitarian approach--ordering businesses closed, people to isolate themselves at home, stay at least six feet apart, and wear masks over their nose and mouth and later, coerced injections of an experimental drug misleadingly characterized as a vaccine. Sweden took a more laissez-faire approach. People were free to take whatever precautions they wanted, but society stayed open. They reasoned that airborne viruses cannot be effectively contained and that the best policy would be to try to reach "herd immunity" as quickly as possible. Three years...

Classified documents from a Pentagon intelligence report have appeared on messaging app Discord since February with top Russian officials reportedly wanting to sabotage Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin plans to "throw" Vladimir Putin's Ukraine war while he's allegedly receiving chemotherapy, leaked Pentagon documents claim. -snip- According to the leaked documents, which have since been removed from the platforms, Russian National Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev and Russian Chief of the General Staff Valeriy Gerasimov want to "throw" the president's war while he's getting treatment for cancer. The memo says: "[The source] on 22 February indicated that Gerasimov reportedly planned to continue...

Howard Stern bashed singers Kid Rock and Travis Tritt in response to their outrage over transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney’spartnership with Bud Light, saying he doesn’t understand why either cares so much. During SirusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show” Monday, Stern expressed shock over the backlash the influencer has received and questioned if there was something he was “missing.” … Stern on Monday said he wanted to speak with both Kid Rock and Tritt about their response, noting he is “coming from a place of, ‘Why do you care so much?'” … The radio host later noted that he didn’t get...

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against Rep. Jim Jordan on Tuesday, alleging that the Republican lawmaker is trying to wage a campaign of intimidation over his prosecution of former President Donald Trump. In his lawsuit, the Democratic D.A. said he’s taking legal action “in response to an unprecedently brazen and unconstitutional attack by members of Congress on an ongoing New York State criminal prosecution and investigation of former President Donald J. Trump.” …

Two men are charged in Kentucky in a kidnapping case for allegedly terrorizing a 7-year-old boy because he was “cute.” Cops with the Winchester Police Department claim that Rahul Rahul, 21, and Arvind Arvind, 23, were taken into custody at a playground on Monday. In the citation for Rahul’s case, officers said they were dispatched to Legacy Grove Park regarding an allegation that two suspicious men were trying to get kids to come with them. “Upon arrival patrol officers made contact with the above [Rahul] and another male [Arvind] that was trying to leave,” cops said. Witnesses said these were...

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a lawsuit Tuesday against House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, demanding that a federal court invalidate any subpoenas he might send for Bragg, and his current or former staff members in the wake of President Donald Trump’s recent indictment. Jordan subpoenaed former New York County Special District Attorney Mark Pomerantz last week, accusing him of politicizing the investigation into Trump and encouraging Bragg to charge the former president.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX)— There wasn’t a seat left in the house during Tina Peters’ sentencing hearing for a class three misdemeanor for obstruction of government operations stemming from an incident captured on police body cam at a Grand Junction bagel shop more than a year ago while DA investigators tried to execute a search warrant for Peters’ iPad. The former clerk is sentenced to serve 120 hours of community service, four months of home detention with electronic monitoring, and pay more than $700 in court costs and restitution. Both sides claim victory after the prosecution wanted Peters behind bars....

After calling for and then deleting his demand for the left to “exterminate” conservative “cockroaches,” Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt is still walking back his incendiary comment, claiming he meant to say “exterminate at the ballot box.” In a recent set of angry tweets, Steven Van Zandt defended his use of “cockroaches” to describe the political opposition after someone pointed out that the same insult was used in Rwanda to foment genocide. Van Zandt claimed his use of “cockroach” was just “symbolism” and that he really meant to say “exterminate at the ballot box.” He called...

Social Media's Distortion of the Real World Constant exposure to idealized online images impacts our expectations and worldviewHow does excessive social media use affect our perceptions of the real world? Writers Mark Miller and Ben White wrote a piece at Aeon on social media through the perspective of “predictive processing,” a term used in neuroscience and cognition. Predictive processing involves the brain’s capacity to predict error, danger, or some future event, and urge us to act accordingly. (That’s my basic, layman’s understanding of it, full disclosure!) White and Miller use temperature as an example, noting how the body may...

These stats are BRUTAL. Bud Light, the biggest beer brand in America, is getting drawn and quartered by its customer base after paying pretend "girl" Dylan Mulvaney to sell their goods. Consider these reports from bars across America: Case & Bucks near Anheuser-Busch's HQ in St. Louis has seen a 30% drop in Bud Light bottle sales and a 50% drop in Bud Light on tap. Braintree Brewhouse in Massachusetts, a huge sports bar near liberal Boston, normally sells 25 Bud Light bottles to each bottle of rivals Miller Lite and Coors Light, but this week there has been an...

Welp, there's one more Democrat city losing America's most popular retail chain because they refuse to do anything about crime. Recently, Walmart closed their last remaining store in the Commie paradise of Portland, and now the retail giant is announcing that they are closing 4 of their 8 stores in the metropolis of Chicago. Here's Walmart's explanation for why they're closing half of the stores in Chiraq: The simplest explanation is that collectively our Chicago stores have not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago – these stores lose tens of millions of dollars a...

It’s a fast way to give your phone some juice that could also give hackers direct access to your information. The FBI has issued a serious warning against using free public phone chargers, saying cunning delinquents have been known to use the USB ports to infect phones with dangerous malware and software that can give hackers access to your phone, tablet or computer. “Avoid using free charging stations in airports, hotels or shopping centers,” a tweet from the official FBI account read. “Carry your own charger and USB cord and use an electrical outlet instead.” The Federal Communications Commission previously...

Just 34% of Americans see the country's energy situation as "very serious," according to a new Gallup tracker poll released Monday. That figure is down 10% from last year, when motorists were paying historically high gas prices. Voter sentiment has since changed, the poll appears to show. While 44% of respondents indicated they’re quite concerned about the domestic situation, 51% said it was just "fairly serious," while 14% felt it is "not at all serious." As of March, Gallup also found that the majority of Americans – 53% – believe the country should "prioritize environmental protection" over developing our own...

The suspect fled in a green vehicle shortly after opening fire at 12.30pm Inside the home, a funeral for a 25-year-old man had just taken place One person is dead and three more injured after a gunman opened fire at a Washington DC funeral home. The shooting unfolded outside the Stewart Funeral Home, shortly after a service for 24-year-old Stephon Lamont Carroll. As mourners were piling out of the funeral home at around 12.18pm, the gunman opened fire. He fled in a green vehicle and remains at large. At a press conference this afternoon, DC police chief Robert Contee said...

The legendary German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whom the Nazis executed less than a month before the end of World War II, once offered this fascinating comparison of stupidity and malice: “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless.” In our day and age of mass stupidity, it’s hard to...

Ten police officers were seen on video arresting a pastor while he was protesting a drag queen reading for kids in Calgary, Alberta, last week — and Pastor Derek Reimer ended up spending Easter in jail, his latest stint behind bars for standing up such events in Canada. In February, Reimer was shoved out a door and knocked flat on his back after protesting a library's drag queen event — at which children were in attendance — and police charged him with a hate crime. In this latest arrest, police converged upon Reimer in a parking lot Tuesday afternoon while...

Odds are that unless you live in Tennessee, you probably hadn’t heard of Democratic State Rep. Justin Pearson until last week, when he and two Democratic colleagues were expelled after leading a pro-gun control protest — or “insurrection,” if you prefer — on the House floor a few days after the deadly mass shooting at Covenant School in Nashville. But these days, the so-called Tennessee Three are enjoying their moment in the media sun and are basically household names. They’re obviously super stoked about that, but they probably should’ve taken a little more time to think about what other stuff...

Recent layoffs at ABC News were not business as usual, some staffers say. “It feels personal,” an insider told Page Six. ABC News president Kim Godwin announced layoffs at the network last month — and multiple sources told us it was a form of payback to people she thought were leaking stories about her at the network. “They’re targeting people to figure out who’s leaking, and the layoffs are a part of it. They’re trying to make an example of them,” a source believes. The cost-cutting move was part of parent Disney’s plan to cut 7,000 jobs. Several senior execs...

“Mad Magazine” cartoonist Al Jaffee — who worked to create one of the satirical publication’s signature features, the back-cover “Fold-In” — has died. He turned 102 on March 13. His granddaughter, Fani Thomson, confirmed his death to the New York Times on Monday. He died of multi-system organ failure at a New York hospital. The magazine’s site posted a tribute to the “incomparable” Jaffee, with current and former staffers honoring him as a “humble and kind creator,” “wholly creative soul,” “at heart, a rascal,” “a national treasure” and more. “Al was, at heart, a rascal,” said John Ficarra, a former...