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Former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is warning her supporters that those who oppose her politically are angling to take legal action against her. In a short fundraising note, Lake claimed that “The establishment wants to ARREST ME for” exposing what she has claimed is election fraud in her state. She made the same claim last month in a tweet that contained headlines from online news sources indicating she could be indicted. Advertisement “They want to ARREST me for exposing fraud in the 2022 Election. Now, the AZ Supreme Court has ruled that the very fraud I highlighted has...

It's herrrrrrrre. Yep, we've got Tuesday's close-out Social Heat for ya. Regarding the shooting of young bro-man Ralph Yarl, the Black teen who was "mistakenly" shot after ringing the doorbell of 84-year-old Andrew Lester, in Kansas City, MO, Lester turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday (04-18-23) and has been released on $200,000 bond. The old man reportedly told authorities he opened fire as soon as he answered the doorbell and observed Ralph grabbing an external door handle. He claimed he was "scared to death" by young Ralph‘s size and believed the minor was attempting to break in. Whatevea. We...

Russian President defies reports of counter offensives to personally deliver Easter greetings to the troops. In the second time in as many months, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a visit to the newly annexed areas of Kherson and Lugansk, having visited Mariupol last month. He traveled by helicopter in spite of threats of a spring counter offensive by Ukrainian forces to receive personally progress reports from the military authorities in the regions, demonstrating that Russia is in control of these regions and no threat is serious enough to prevent him visiting at will. After receiving progress reports, the President congratulated...

A Washington State middle school has been slammed as 'disgusting' after it hosted a bizarre licking game between students and staff. Shocking footage showed the outlandish competition at Desert Hills Middle School in Kennewick, Washington, where schoolkids and their adult teachers were tasked with licking marshmallow cream off either side of a plexiglass pane at the same time. Horrified students, some of whom recorded the game and showed their parents, can be heard in the video screaming 'Ew', 'Disgusting' and 'That's so gross'. After the disturbing footage was circulated, outraged parents have hit out at the middle school, with many...

The saga of the Anheuser-Busch promotional debacle continues to swirl, with mounting boycotts and a growing tide of counter-activism taking place. Ted Lieu and Adam Schiff posed with Bud Light bottles in hand, looking about as natural doing so as Dylan Mulvaney looks like a natural woman. (Seriously, I’d be more inclined to turn away from a brand due to a Ted Lieu endorsement than I would a dude cosplaying as an overcaffeinated high schooler.)

One of ESPN's biggest stars has spoken out against the Biden administration's plan to reform rules around transgender participation in sport - breaking with her network and arguing that allowing trans women to compete alongside biological women was unfair. ESPN has been supportive of trans women in competition, and last month included transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in their segment devoted to Women's History Month. But Samantha Ponder, host of Sunday NFL Countdown, said she did not agree with trans women in competition. She spoke out amid a heated debate sparked by the Biden administration's proposed reform of Title IX. Title...

A Russian news agency report says that US Global Hawk drone flights over the Black Sea... A federal judge ruling in favor of the US House Judiciary Committee... US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito extending his order allowing access to the controversial abortion drug... In Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that striking government workers... More strikes planned in the UK as workers seek higher pay in the midst of ten percent plus inflation... "Given Federal expenditures, it is a matter of when, not if, we default" The world's second richest man Elon Musk responding... With a lawsuit hanging over...

Police have agreed to relax bail conditions preventing a Catholic woman from praying in public following her second arrest outside an abortion facility. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested for praying outside the British Pregnancy Advisory Service clinic in Station Road, Birmingham. It came just two weeks after a judge in the city ruled that she had committed no offence the first time she was arrested. West Midlands Police then imposed bail conditions which included a ban on her praying publicly – even outside the 150 metre buffer zone imposed around the clinic by Birmingham City Council in autumn last year. The...

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A leading Catholic lawmaker and religious freedom advocate has called on the Biden administration to support the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services in a dispute over a long-running Catholic pastoral care contract that a leading U.S. military medical center awarded to a secular defense contractor. Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, issued an April 4 “cease and desist” order to Holy Name College Friary, a community of Franciscan priests and brothers in Silver Spring, Maryland, who have served service members and veterans at Walter Reed for nearly two decades. The military archdiocese...

Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has finally returned to Capitol Hill, having spent most of his tenure as a U.S. senator at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center being treated for clinical depression.(snip) His May 2022 stroke left him incapacitated for weeks, and he was lucky to survive. Despite this, he chose to continue campaigning, which could have potentially led to permanent brain damage, according to those close to him. Despite his prolonged period away from the Senate, it doesn’t appear that he’s experienced any improvement in his recovery from his stroke, and that was abundantly clear from watching him chair...

Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, a self-professed Catholic, also ‘helped connect Bishops with the FBI’ to discuss the issue.Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s running mate in the 2016 presidential election, defended the FBI’s monitoring of Latin Mass Catholics, according to a Sunday report. Former FBI special agent Kyle Seraphin released a bombshell memo in February from the agency’s Richmond, Virginia, office asserting that “violent extremists” were taking an interest in “Radical Traditionalist Catholic (RTC) Ideology” and that this presented “new opportunities for threat mitigation” via undercover sources. Earlier this month, the FBI admitted to U.S....

Egyptian experts have criticized Netflix for “blackwashing” its upcoming docu-series about Queen Cleopatra VII. Now, they’re taking action to see that the show never airs — by banning the streaming giant from the country completely. “African Queens: Queen Cleopatra” is narrated and executive produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, 51, and stars Adele James, 27, who is biracial, as the legendary queen of Egypt, whose specific race has long been the subject of historical dispute. Pinkett Smith previously explained that she wanted to be involved in the project because she “really wanted to represent Black women.” But Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, who...

Recently, a ridiculously wimpy $29 ham and cheese sandwich from Eli Zabar’s E.A.T. on the Upper East Side went viral for its absurd price tag, which made the $5 pizza slices at Fini in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, seem like a relative bargain. It’s just the latest insult to New Yorkers’ wallets, which have been hit by skyrocketing pricing everywhere from the movie theater to the local barbershop. A can of craft beer is nearing $10, a shoe shine will run you $15 and a dry cleaning trip will end up taking you to the cleaners. Sure, NYC has never been a...

A federal judge on Wednesday shot down Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s attempt to block a former prosecutor in his office from testifying before the House Judiciary Committee about the criminal case against Donald Trump. The committee and its chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), had subpoenaed ex-assistant district attorney Mark Pomerantz to give testimony about the DA’s investigation into Trump, 76, that culminated in the former president’s indictment in March. Bragg filed suit against Jordan and the Judiciary Committee, claiming the subpoena was an overreach by the GOP-led House and an attempt to influence a state criminal proceeding.

We received the sad news last week that self-propelled scissor lift pioneer and access industry icon John W. Parker has died. He passed away on Thursday - April 6th at the age of 87, and leaves behind his wife Marilyn, daughter Lori, and sons Johnny, Robert, David, Mark and Ronnie . John W. Parker in 1970 John W. Parker began his career in May 1966 when he went to work for the A1 Machinery Rental company in Los Angeles, which was owned by Bob Irving along with several other rental companies in the greater Los Angeles region. Irving happened to...

Shortly after 4 p.m. Monday three carloads of federal agents raided an office in Washington, DC. They weren’t after money launderers or Janary 6 participants. The agents were from the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service, the agency charged with providing security to federal government facilities. Their quarry was a senior civil servant named Brian Sulc, executive director of the Transnational Organized Crime Mission Center at DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis in Washington. This office was established by Joe Biden in December 2021 and, along with parallel organizations in State, Treasury, Defense, Justice, and the DNI, with the...

A top U.S. official is concerned that many of the unexplained encounters between military aircraft and unidentified flying objects his office is investigating could be adversaries such as China spying on the country, rather than wayward extraterrestrials.The director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office updated the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities on Wednesday about what his office has been doing since its creation last year.“This is a hunt mission for what might somebody be doing in our backyard that we don’t know about,” AARO Director Sean M. Kirkpatrick said. “That is what we are doing.”The special...

School administrators at one Indiana school openly boast about how they hide woke content from parents. Just because you’re in a red state, that does not mean that your child is safe from leftist content. After all, most graduates of America’s education training programs started out or were taught to be leftists. Accuracy in Media (“AIM”) managed to get hidden camera footage of administrators in several Indiana schools explaining how they hide from parents that they’re still teaching CRT and anti-Americanism. It’s apparent from how the revelations unfold that the AIM undercover operatives posed as leftist parents concerned that their...

I have been warning for more than two years that the global beast system will be fully in place when we see the globalists succeed at implementing two key components: A global digital ID for all people and a new form of global digital money that will be designed to replace cash. They have been racing toward reaching each of these two goals and 2023 may be the year they succeed, although that still remains to be seen. One thing’s for sure. If they don’t succeed, it won’t be for lack of trying. On April 10, the globalists dropped a...

A stampede at an event to distribute financial aid in Yemen's capital late Wednesday resulted in dozens of people being killed or injured, Houthi officials said. At least 78 people were killed and dozens more suffered injuries, a Houthi official said. The crush took place in the Old City in the center of Sanaa when hundreds of poor people gathered at the event organized by merchants without coordination with local authorities, according to the Houthi-run Interior Ministry.