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A 40-pound boa constrictor was captured in the middle of a road in Florida last week after firefighters got a call about the invasive snake threatening a group of peafowl, officials said. A distress call had alerted fire officials about a "sizable python" that was "menacing" the peafowl around noon Wednesday in Palmetto, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said. Officials said when Lt. Christopher Pecori from the department’s Venom One Response team arrived at the scene, he identified the snake as a red tail boa constrictor, which is a species non-native to Florida. "The Venom One Response officer promptly headed to the...

Oregon has more LGBTQ+ people per capita than any other state, according to a report from The Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles and shared by the Advocate. You don’t have to look far to find representation in Oregon. After Governor Kate Brown became the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected as governor in the history of the United States in 2016, Governor Tina Kotek became one of the first two openly lesbian governors in 2022.

The fascist tide is rising in America and around the world. Many Americans are drowning in it. Donald Trump leads President Biden in the early 2024 polls. The Republican fascists are poised to impeach Biden for non-existent “high crimes” as a way of distracting the American people and delegitimating any future attempts to hold a president accountable for their real crimes against democracy and the rule of law. As shown by public opinion polls and other measures, there is a growing sense and almost palpable feeling of dread and despair, that something is fundamentally broken in American society and culture....

17 December 2023 3rd Sunday of Advent The National Shrine of San Lázaro, El Rincón, CubaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Rose or Violet. Year: B(II).First readingIsaiah 61:1-2,10-11 ©He has sent me to proclaim a year of favour from the LordThe spirit of the Lord has been given to me,for the Lord has anointed me.He has sent me to bring good news to the poor,to bind up hearts that are broken;to proclaim liberty to captives,freedom to those in prison;to proclaim a year of favour from the Lord.‘I exult for joy in the Lord,my soul rejoices in my God,for he has clothed...

The woman who plunged from a luxury Upper East Side apartment building Thursday had a blowout fight with her spouse just moments before she took the fatal leap, according to sources — but the “devastated” husband said “he wasn’t even home.” Alina Page, 35, jumped from the roof on the 36th story of The Brittany after her spouse confronted her about her drinking habits, law enforcement sources told The Post. Her husband, Brian Page, said he wasn’t there when the tragedy unfolded but declined to answer questions about whether there was a fight. “She was the love of my life,...

Police are warning about an uptick in this scam during the holiday season as last-minute shoppers look for gifts for family and friends. Fraudsters know that the recipients of gift cards are unlikely to try to spend them until Christmas Day. By that time, the gangs will have spent the money loaded to them, leading to confused recipients getting gift cards with a $0 balance. But this crime does not only affect shoppers at this time of year. Suzanne bought the $200 Target gift card - which she did not realize had been tampered with - from her local store...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said he believes the “narrative” at the center of the House’s impeachment inquiry into President Biden is “falling apart,” arguing if there was a “smoking gun” in the inquiry, there would be more clear discussions. “If there were a smoking gun, I think we’d be talking about it,” Graham said on NBC News’s “Meet The Press.” “But… the narrative that Hunter Biden presented is falling part. The idea that Joe Biden knew nothing about the business dealings is falling apart. I’m not worried about impeaching the president right now,” Graham continued, adding he is...

estern officials have become concerned over the prospect of a lack of action by the US Congress to fund military aid to Ukraine, fearing that Kyiv might only be able to fight on its own for a few months without it and support from other Western countries. Source: CNN, citing "multiple US and European officials", as reported by European Pravda Details: CNN says Western intelligence services are now considering how long Ukraine can endure without US and NATO assistance. One senior US military official claimed it could be "months," with the worst-case scenario being "a significant setback or even defeat"...

GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie did not rule out Sunday working with Nikki Haley to defeat former President Trump in the GOP primary as the former president remains the clear frontrunner. “I’m working on defeating Donald Trump and I’m the only one in the race who is working on defeating Donald Trump,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” when asked if he would ever work with Haley to defeat Trump. “When she hasn’t ruled out being his vice president, I don’t think you could take her as a serious contender against him,” he continued. “Ron DeSantis and I have...

Former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), a Republican presidential candidate, said Sunday on “This Week” that state legislature will have to “tweak” abortion laws to avoid women having to carry nonviable pregnancies. Anchor Jonathan Karl said, “We had the Texas Supreme Court abortion occasion, really kind of a tragic case. Kate Cox, the Supreme Court ruled she could not have an abortion even though her doctor said it might jeopardize her ability to have children in the future and the fetus was almost certainly not going to survive. You disagreed with that decision by the Texas Supreme Court?”

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about immigrants was irrelevant. Saturday, at a rally, Trump said, “They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That is what they’ve done. They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America or three or four countries, but they’re coming into our country from Africa and Asia, and they’re pouring into our country.

Detroit, Michigan, cut its murder rate down to a 60-year-low by simply ignoring liberal crime policies, holding criminals accountable and hiring more police, a report from the city showed. The city recorded 228 homicides this year as of Nov. 30, marking an 18% drop compared to the same time last year, according to the report. Detroit hit its lowest homicide rate in 60 years back in 2018 when it recorded 261 homicides, meaning 2023 could soon make a new record, Detroit Free Press noted. In order to make the historic moment happen, leaders simply did the obvious: Locked criminals up....

Both the US Federal government and California’s government are facing a fiscal inferno. Thanks to a softening economy and inane fiscal policies. First, let’s begin with banks to illustrate the worsening condition of the economy. Emergency loans from The Fed’s Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) is on the rise, signaling perceived trouble in the economy. Small banks are suffering more than big banks. Consumer sentiment is below 70 (100 baseline) under Biden and Bidenomics. And then we have Gavin “Gruesome” Newsom and California. California is now facing a $68 billion deficit. It has also defaulted on a $20 billion loan...

Midway through last week’s Republican presidential-primary debate, the entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy started running through conspiracy theories like a frustrated child mashing buttons on Street Fighter, alleging that the Capitol riot was an “inside job” and that the so-called “Great Replacement” theory “is not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the Democratic Party’s platform.” Right-wing apologism for January 6 is no longer shocking, not even from Republican presidential candidates. Trumpists often vacillate between denying it happened, justifying and valorizing those who attempted to overthrow the government to keep Donald Trump in power, or insisting that they were...

Congress is often a theater of the absurd, from Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) pulling a fire alarm before a major vote to.. none of that compares to what unfolded on Wednesday as Hunter Biden stood outside Congress and defied a subpoena as being "beyond the absurd." What happens next could be even more bizarre. Hunter was under a subpoena from the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability to appear for testimony. As I previously wrote, he had two choices: He could appear and either testify or invoke his right to remain silent. The only thing that he could not do...

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham claims that he has not seen any evidence that President Biden should be impeached. No smoking gun, he said. However he admitted that he hasn’t really been paying attention.

There’s been a lot of speculation about why the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago, treating Trump as if he were the villain in “Scarface.” Most rational thinkers are skeptical that it was about classified secrets Trump supposedly shouldn’t have had. Instead, it seems more likely connected to a particular binder brimming with details that could potentially dismantle Obama and Hillary’s Crossfire Hurricane operation.What are the odds that the regime was frantically searching for this crucial binder?CNN:A binder containing highly classified information related to Russian election interference went missing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, raising alarms among intelligence officials that some...

Jeff Roe, a top strategist for the main super PAC supporting Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign, announced his resignation from the group late Saturday — the latest in a string of departures from the organization.The pro-DeSantis group, Never Back Down, has been enveloped in turmoil in recent weeks. Two weeks ago, it fired three of its top officials, including the super PAC’s chief executive officer. The board chairman, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, also left, as did the organization’s president, Chris Jankowski.Republican strategist Phil Cox, a longtime DeSantis ally and adviser, has stepped in to help steer the PAC in...

President Biden is running for reelection to save what he calls democracy from Caesar Augustus in waiting: former President Donald Trump. Since “Bidenomics” is as popular as Dylan Mulvaney’s commercials for Bud Light, the president’s reelection team — aka the Suicide Squad — has decided that the road to victory lies in convincing voters that the likely Republican nominee is a sinister figure who would transform the land of the free into a nation of storm troopers, stiff-arm salutes and tax reform. Mr. Biden told a fundraiser in September, “Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are determined to destroy American...