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Qualified Immunity is a controversial legal principle that “protects a government official from lawsuits alleging that the official violated a plaintiff’s rights, only allowing suits where officials violated a ‘clearly established’ statutory or constitutional right.” The bottom line for those of us who believe in civil liberties is that Qualified Immunity makes it very difficult to hold public officials accountable, especially police officers even in cases of horrific brutality, and it’s grating to think that this doctrine was invented by the Supreme Court in 1967. There’s a tension between the Bill of Rights, especially the Second Amendment, and Qualified Immunity....

GOP LA Senator John Kennedy Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) stated that he thinks the Justice Department will do “whatever they can to make sure that President Trump is the nominee, because that’s who President Biden wants.” And Biden “thinks President Trump is the only person he can beat.” Kennedy said, “I don’t know what the facts are. I haven’t seen the indictment yet. I will say, in terms of the politics — and this is the cynical point of view — but I think some Americans are drawing this conclusion, that President Biden and President Trump have a co-dependency, President...

(Last Updated On: July 13, 2023) NATIONAL LOLLIPOP DAY | JULY 20 July 20th recognizes National Lollipop Day as a way to celebrate this enduring and ever-popular treat. Pick up your favorite flavor to savor! #NationalLollipopDay Ever delightful and sweet, lollipops have satisfied generations of sweet tooths. And it’s possible they’ve been doing that for centuries. However, no one is sure how old the lollipop is. During prehistoric times, a form of lollipop may have preserved nuts and berries in honey. As sugar became plentiful, lollipops appeared much later in 16th century Europe. In the United States, confectionaries and medicine...

Trans influencer and biological male Dylan Mulvaney appears to be trying to cash in on his newfound infamy after sparking a national Bud Light boycott this summer by soliciting speaking gigs on college campuses. “Booking speaking opportunities for the upcoming 23/24 school year and would love to come visit,” Mulvaney told his 1.8 million followers in an Instagram Story on Wednesday, according to a report by the New York Post. The trans influencer also included an email address “for serious inquiries,” before signing off with “love ya!” Notably, the Creative Arts Agency’s (CAA) talent agency lists Mulvaney on its website...

Rotterdam, New York – The ongoing migrant crisis brewing in New York State appears to have worsened after long-term residents and guests of a Super 8 motel were kicked from their rooms on Tuesday. The sudden evictions, according to a County official, were conducted to make room for “busloads” of third-world migrants being resettled from New York City. According to reports, the Super 8 Motel near Fort Hunter Park in Schenectady County, abruptly demanded that all its guests and long-term residents check out of their rooms, leaving some with little to no time to find a place to stay. The...

Israelophobia: While a global bigoted media Al Jazeera talks about so called "Zionist control", here are some of more of such Goliath Arab/Islamic Media control "Qatar-Run Outlet Warns Of Zionist-Controlled Media. The dire consequences of a foreign country setting the editorial and content agenda. [preoccupiedterritory.com/qatar-run-outlet-warns-of-zionist-controlled-media/)... ___ Now let's talk about media controlling Israelophobia. Before we go on into a list of rabid anti-Israel bigots like Patrick Kingsley of NYT or Jeremy Bowen of BBC, or Christiane Amanpour at CNN & PBS, three distorters, among many, or entire media outlets dedicated for anti-Israel when it comes to the M.E., like The...

Cillian Murphy stars as the “Father of the Atomic Bomb” in a stacked ensemble that includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr. and Florence Pugh. Cillian Murphy in 'Oppenheimer' UNIVERSAL PICTURES Both a probing character study and a sweeping account of history, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a brainy, brawny thriller about the man who led the Manhattan Project to build the bomb that ended World War II. To dispense with the inevitable weapon of mass destruction metaphors, it’s more slow-burn than explosive. But perhaps the most surprising element of this audacious epic is that the scramble for atomic armament...

The top Japanese diplomat in Oregon was shoved to the ground in Portland without any provocation by a homeless woman with a history of violence toward Asian people — and authorities are investigating that attack as a hate crime Yoshioka Yuzo, the 62-year-old consul general for Portland’s Consular Office of Japan, was walking near Southwest Park Avenue and Oak Street on June 17 when he was “jumped” and pushed to the ground, according to newly released court documents. The diplomat, who has been at his posting in Portland since March, suffered a cut to his head and was taken to...

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday that the state has made an early paydown of $400 million towards active debt through the payoff of bonds prior to maturity, avoiding accruing interest costs. The payoff was facilitated through the Debt Reduction Program, which was established as part of the state’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2023-24 budget. Amidst its inception, DeSantis maintained that the program would allow the state to eliminate various avenues of debt ahead of schedule. According to the Division of Bond Finance, Florida’s total debt amounts to $16.0 billion at the end of FY 2023, marking the lowest level since...

Recreational marijuana supporters today urged the Florida Supreme Court to approve the ballot language of a citizen-led effort to legalize recreational marijuana in the state. Libertarian policy group Cato Institute, a Washington-based think-tank, filed a friend-of-the-court brief Wednesday in support of the measure. A separate brief was also filed by the Medical Marijuana Business Association of Florida. The association is closely linked to Smart & Safe Florida, a political committee sponsoring the marijuana legalization initiative. Both of the newly filed briefs took issue with Attorney General Ashley Moody’s previously filed opinion that the ballot initiative should be thrown off the...

Florida first lady Casey DeSantis snapped back Thursday at left-wing critics who have dubbed her “America’s Karen,” “Walmart Melania” and other disparaging monikers. “One thing that the corporate media did get right about me, I do shop at Walmart,” Casey joked alongside her husband, Gov. Ron DeSantis, during an interview on “Fox & Friends.” “When they come after you and they’re just calling you names — that means they don’t want to litigate the merits of their case,” she added. “They don’t want to have that conversation. They want to call you names.”

The Georgia congresswoman suggested Hunter Biden had violated the Mann Act during a congressional hearing on his taxes “Before we begin, I would like to let the committee and everyone watching at home [know] that parental discretion is advised,” Greene said at the beginning of her allotted speaking time. The congresswoman went on to suggest that Biden’s relationships with sex workers and escorts potentially constituted human trafficking. Greene alluded to a flight Biden allegedly purchased for a woman: “If he was purchasing her a plane ticket for sex and traveling across state lines, do you believe that to be a...

A Wagner mercenary fighting in Ukraine had only a 1-in-5 chance of making it through unscathed, according to the latest figures. The unverified numbers, posted on Telegram by several Wagner-affiliated channels, claim that in all operations from the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion up until the “capture of Bakhmut” on May 20: · Wagner had 78,000 thousand fighters in total. · 49,000 of these were convicts. · 22,000 were killed. · 40,000 wounded This leave just 16,000 that made it through the fighting without being killed or injured. The figures appear to have been released in response to Russian Ministry...

Patient data at UT Southwestern Medical Center, including social security numbers for some, was stolen in a cyberattack on the Dallas hospital's software, officials announced Thursday. The hospital was notified on May 30 that two days earlier, on May 28, "an unknown individual exploited a previously unidentified vulnerability within the software," allowing them to access files stored on the hospital's MOVEit server. The hospital's privacy office confirmed that some protected health information was stolen as a result of the attack. The information included patient data that could have included name, medical record number, date of birth, name of medication, dosage...

The FBI knew Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell was authentic in 2019 but lied to social media companies so the story would be censored during the 2020 election to help Joe Biden. The House Ways and Means Committee recently reported: In October 2019, the FBI became aware that a repair shop had a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden and that the laptop might contain evidence of a crime. The FBI verified its authenticity in November of 2019 by matching the device number against Hunter Biden’s Apple iCloud ID. According to testimony from Laura Dehmlow, the Section Chief of the...

The boyfriend of the Alabama woman who disappeared from a highway, causing a frantic manhunt before mysteriously reappearing at home two days later, has wiped all trace of her from his social media. Thomar Latrell Simmons’ Facebook page, once filled with glamorous photos of him and Carlee Russell smiling together, now shows barely any sign of the 25-year-old nursing student, including his assertion that she was “fighting for her life for 48 hours” during the time she was missing. The change came hours after Hoover police revealed they had found internet searches where Carlee had looked up a movie about...

A DEI dean at Stanford Law School, who went viral for her speech reprimanding a federal judge appointed by President Trump while a mob of law students shouted him down, will resign from her position, according to a school announcement. Students learned that Tirien Steinbach would leave her post as associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion in an announcement issued by the Dean of Stanford Law School, Professor Jenny S. Martinez. In her announcement, the dean mentioned the March 9 incident where Steinbach stoked a crowd of angry students while Trump-appointed U.S. Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan attempted to speak...

Explanation: This magnificent spiral galaxy is Messier 64, often called the Black Eye Galaxy or the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy for its dark-lidded appearance in telescopic views. The spiral's central region, about 7,400 light-years across, is pictured in this reprocessed image from the Hubble Space Telescope. M64 lies some 17 million light-years distant in the otherwise well-groomed northern constellation Coma Berenices. The enormous dust clouds partially obscuring M64's central region are laced with young, blue star clusters and the reddish glow of hydrogen associated with star forming regions. But imposing clouds of dust are not this galaxy's only peculiar feature. Observations...

ROME — Pope Francis has sent Bologna Cardinal Matteo Zuppi to hand-deliver a personal letter to U.S. President Joe Biden appealing for collaboration in the Ukraine peace process. Cardinal Zuppi’s visit to Washington D.C. took place from Monday to Wednesday of this week, the Vatican reported, and began with a meeting between the Italian prelate and the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Archbishop Timothy Broglio. Their conversation, the Vatican Press Office stated, focused on the war in Ukraine and the Holy See’s efforts on behalf of peace and the victims of the conflict.

Former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a lifelong Democrat and activist against antisemitism, has officially changed his party registration to Republican — as has his wife, he announced on Thursday morning. Hikind made the revelation on Twitter: IT’S OFFICIAL: My wife and I have switched our party affiliation from Democrat to Republican! Ppl have long been asking, “Dov, when are you gonna leave the Democratic Party?” Well, the time has come bc the Dems have turned their back on Jews & Israel, so it’s officially done! pic.twitter.com/VAlGaaALDO — Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) July 20, 2023