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State Representative Justin Humphrey from District 19 in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, has called for a thorough investigation into allegations of constitutional and civil rights violations by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).The allegations were brought forward by 52-year-old high school history teacher, Baptist pastor, and part-time gun dealer, Russell Fincher. Mr. Fincher claims that ATF agents employed intimidation tactics and coercion to force him into surrendering his federal firearms license. (snip) The agents’ actions resembled extortion rather than a legitimate law enforcement search. Furthermore, one agent’s statement, “Tell your firearms buddies we are coming for them,” constituted...

Cocaine use continues to be a public health problem, yet despite concerted efforts, no drugs have been approved to resolve cocaine addiction. Research suggests that the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder drug methylphenidate (MPH; Ritalin) could serve as a cocaine-replacement therapy, but clinical results have been mixed. Although several labs have produced MPH derivatives for testing, parts of the molecule remained chemically inaccessible. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have cleared that hurdle. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 5 million Americans reported actively using cocaine in 2020, and almost 25,000 Americans died of a cocaine-related overdose...

Scientists at a Pentagon medical intelligence unit wrote in a research report that evidence indicates that SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19, may have been “developed in a laboratory," The Washington Times reports. Scientists from the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Center for Medical Intelligence determined, in an unclassified research paper published in 2020 and recently uncovered by The Australian, that COVID-19 was engineered. The report also rebuffed a previous research paper written by Kristian G. Andersen and four other scientists which concluded that “SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.” The NCMI report, written by Robert Greg Cutlip and...

Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann called on former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines to acknowledge that she was a terrible athlete in a post that is receiving backlash on social media. “Can you just address the reality and move past it?” Olbermann wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “You sucked at swimming. That’s why you lost.” Gaines famously tied with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological male and former member of the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team. Olbermann was responding to a post Gaines made in defense of a “Women’s Bill of Rights,” which postulates that “males and females...

Elon Musk has spoken out about his painful estrangement from his transgender daughter, calling her a 'communist' and blaming her politics on the expensive private high school she attended. Musk's now 19-year-old child last year legally changed her gender to female and her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson, saying in court filings that she 'no longer wishes to be related' to the billionaire Tesla CEO 'in any way.' In an excerpt from his upcoming biography of Musk published on Thursday by the Wall Street Journal, author Walter Isaacson wrote that Musk's rift with Vivian 'pained him more than anything in...

The brothers were playing in the front garden when the incident happenedWe use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. More info A 10-year-old boy needed hospital treatment after being bitten while saving his toddler brother from being attacked by a dog. Caio Lewis was playing with his two-year-old brother Jac in his father’s front garden in Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire, on Saturday evening. It was then that a French bulldog ran into the garden. Realising quickly...

Ford is retiring three internal combustion engine models – the Escape, Edge and Transit Connect – to make room for new electric vehicles. Legacy automobile companies that have been producing internal combustion engine vehicles for decades have been addicted to their gas-powered models as electric vehicles began to make their mark over the past dozen or so years. Those companies have slowly begun to make commitments to transition to all-electric, but some have been changing at a snail's pace.

The London native was the right-hand man on sets for Rian Johnson, James Gunn, David Yates and others in a career that spanned three decades.Jamie Christopher, the valuable first assistant director whose work spanned such films as Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and all eight Harry Potter movies, has died. He was 52. Christopher died Tuesday from heart complications in Los Angeles. Hailing from a filmmaking family — his father was a production manager on Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon and his mother a production coordinator — Christopher rose to become an in-demand crewmember for studio franchises...

Planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions pose a direct threat to the survival of polar bears — by limiting their access to the sea ice that serves as their hunting grounds, a new study has found. During ice-free summer months, the bears must fast, which in worst-case scenarios mean adults could die and, before then, lose the ability to successfully raise cubs, according to the study, published Thursday in the journal Science. The first-of-its-kind research quantifies the amount of ice-free days caused by specific amounts of emissions, as well as associated polar bear survival rates and declining trends in some subpopulations.

Some boycotts garner a lot of attention. Yet people generally move on, leaving even the hottest-button issues of consumer umbrage in the past. F For the first time in six years, Target announced a sales drop: a decline of 5% in the April to June 2023 period, compared with the same time in 2022. During that time, the big-box retailer was also embroiled in a controversy over their collection of merchandise for Pride Month, which spurred consumer backlash and boycotts from some politically conservative shoppers. Coincidence? Perhaps not, said Christina Hennington, Target's executive vice president, on the company's Q2 2023...

What Is Salt? Salt is a seasoning that can flavor food and act as a preservative. It’s about 60% chloride and about 40% sodium. Nearly all unprocessed foods -- think veggies, fruits, nuts, meats, whole grains, and dairy foods -- are low in sodium. The salt that we do eat helps relax and contract muscles, lends a hand with nerve impulses, and balances the minerals and water we take in. How Much Salt Do You Need? Our body needs only a small amount of sodium. We should get about 1,500 milligrams of it every day. But the average American takes...

On Wednesday, leading 2024 presidential candidate and 45th President Donald Trump posted 31 videos on his top-rated social media platform, Truth Social, and other social media platforms and has amassed over 42 million views.As of Thursday morning, Trump's videos received 42,300,000 views across Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), and Truth Social.Trump's personal Instagram page posted 28 videos and received over 25.9 million views.The leading Republican candidate's campaign Instagram page, @TeamTrump, posted two of Trump's videos and received over 101,500 views.Meanwhile, his campaign X page, @TrumpWarRoom, posted 12 videos and received over 1.2 million views.Trump's other campaign X page, @TeamTrump, posted 13...

It has been described as one of the world's top 50 "must-do" experiences Hundreds braved the cold waters at the World Bog Snorkelling Championships which took place in Wales over the August Bank Holiday weekend. Competitors were dressed in all sorts of silly costumes as they tried to snorkel across a bog. Taking place Llanwrtyd Wells, the event featured people from all over the word taking to the Waen Rhydd bog, with the gruelling Bog Triathlon, which includes an eight-mile run, a 12-mile mountain bike ride and the 60-yard bog trench. The competition has been described by the travel guide...

Donald Trump’s indictment at the hands of District Attorney (DA) Fani Willis in Georgia has done less than nothing to aid the former president’s GOP rivals, with his lead over Ron DeSantis in the state now standing at 42 points.A poll taken days after the Democrat official indicted Trump puts him at 57 percent, with the Florida Governor a distant second on just 15 percent.The also-rans in the race for the Republican noimination barely register in the Peach State, with Mike Pence having the best showing on a mere four percent. The most vocally anti-Trump candidates, Chris Christie and WEF-linked...

Governor Jared Polis (D-CO) said Wednesday on “CNN Primetime” that school children should be able to display a “Gadsden flag” or a “Pride flag” because “that’s what it’s all about, to be an American.” Discussing a child in Colorado initially being told he can not have a Gadsden symbol on his backpack, anchor Abby Phillip said, “You’ve called the Gadsden flag a proud symbol of the American revolution. What do you make of why this incident happened in the first place?” Polis said, “Well, look, I call it a teaching moment. You know, Abby, we all remember high school, college,...

RINO Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Thursday rejected a state lawmaker’s effort to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from office. The Georgia Freedom Caucus on Thursday held a press conference on Fulton County DA Fani Willis’s RICO and conspiracy indictment against Trump. Earlier this month Fani Willis hit President Trump and 18 others with RICO and conspiracy charges for daring to challenge the 2020 election.

The Gateway Pundit has been doing yeoman’s work covering the story of discovered voter fraud in Michigan and the state/fed level coverup that has followed. [SEE HERE]The short version is that election fraud, discovered and put on blast by a clerk from Muskegon, Michigan, was happening under the same process throughout the state. The group “GBI Strategies”, that was at the center of the Muskegon fraud, was operating a fraudulent voter registration submission process throughout Michigan.The thousands of fraudulent registrations (Muskegon example) were part of a process to generate hundreds of thousands of fraudulent ballots (statewide). Those fraudulent ballots were...

How A Papal Trip Is ChosenLet’s say you are the Pope. Not any Pope. A very “special” one. You hate Catholics, all of them. They remind you that they have a faith that you don’t have; that you have entered the seminary only to scrounge a comfortable, privileged existence; that they are better human beings, in every sense of the word, that you ever were. In short, you hate Catholics because they are good, that is: the contrary of you. You also notice that they avoid you. St Peter’s Square has become a desert. People just tune you out. Those...

As the sun goes down, the sound of bagpipes echoes in the air at Carmel Beach. With what originally began as a way to bring joy during a vulnerable time for people during the COVID-19 pandemic, Greg Freeman has made playing his bagpipes at sunset, a weekly ritual. “The early days of the pandemic, my community had a lot of anxiety and concern about things, about life. And I decided to come down and try to cheer people up and spread some good vibes,” said Freeman. Advertisement Based on the responses he received, those good vibes seemed to work. Now,...

the rock oprah Getty Image Entertainment The Rock And Oprah Launched A Fund To Help Those Impacted By The Maui Wildfires Josh Kurp Josh KurpSenior Pop Culture Editor Twitter August 31, 2023 Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Oprah Winfrey have joined forces to raise money for those affected by the devastating wildfires in Maui, Hawaii. “We’re honored to announce the People’s Fund of Maui, a fund putting money directly in the pockets of those who were affected by the recent wildfires,” the Moana star tweeted. “As @Oprah and I have seen firsthand, the impacts of these wildfires have been devastating,...