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A professor has won a multimillion dollar settlement after exposing retaliation he faced for challenging woke policies at a California community college. Matthew Garrett, a former history professor at Bakersfield College recently won a $2.4 million dollar settlement after being terminated from his teaching post for allegedly making “insulting,” “untrue” and “personal” comments about black students and professors during a committee meeting organized by the Kern Community College District (KCCD). [snip] Garrett’s lawsuit named several defendants, including KCCD board president John Corkins, who said of Garrett and a number of his colleagues, “that’s why we put a rope on them...

A federal complaint unsealed on Tuesday in Brooklyn has charged Asif Merchant, also known as “Asif Raza Merchant,” a 46-year-old Pakistani national, with murder-for-hire in connection with a foiled assassination plot targeting a politician or U.S. government officials on American soil. The plot was thwarted by law enforcement before any attack could be executed. Merchant is currently in federal custody in New York, according to the press release. FBI investigators believe that the intended targets of the plot included Trump and other current and former U.S. government officials, according to a U.S. official briefed on the matter, per CNN. According...

CELLAR monster Josef Fritzl is enjoying life in a luxury prison cell with an en-suite shower and his own minder. Fritzl, 89, was jailed for life in 2009 after keeping his daughter locked up as his sex slave for 24 years. The Austrian fiend, who fathered seven kids with her, was moved from a high-security psychiatric unit to a normal prison earlier this year. Now his lawyer Dr Astrid Wagner has told The Sun on Sunday the beast is “thrilled” with a “nice and spacious” cell to himself with a shower. And he has reportedly grown close to another inmate...

Advertisements in Sunday’s Austin American-Statesman, Dallas Morning News, and Fort Worth Star-Telegram invite pro-abortion Texas medical professionals to consider relocating to New Mexico due to Texas’ life-affirming laws that protect women, babies in the womb, and medical professionals. These taxpayer-funded ads feature an open letter from far-left, pro-abortion Democrat New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham, urging pro-abortion Texas doctors to move to New Mexico if they are unable to practice under Texas’ life-affirming laws. Similar advertisements have appeared in the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News. “I know that legal restrictions on healthcare in Texas have created a heavy burden...

(Aug. 6, 2024) — Google and Facebook got caught again recently engaging in nefarious search engine censorship and/or bias tactics regarding the assassination attempt on Trump. The big tech sites also do this to other people and for other subjects and key terms. Let me share with you a couple specific examples from my personal experience with Google censorship, bias, and search results manipulation.

Following weeks of speculation, Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Tuesday that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will be her 2024 running mate, creating the most radically left presidential ticket in modern history.“I am proud to announce that I’ve asked @Tim_Walz to be my running mate,” Harris wrote on X. “It’s great to have him on the team.”Tuesday’s pick surprised many political analysts, who viewed Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as the likely candidate to run alongside Harris. While governor of a key battleground state, Shapiro’s Jewish heritage and prior support for Israel prompted America’s corrupt media to speculate that his presence...

— If Donald Trump is elected in November (not a foregone conclusion) would he attempt to plug the anchor baby loophole? That’s the insane policy by which babies born to illegal alien mothers on U.S. soil receive automatic birthright citizenship. Thus, American nationality policy is taken from U.S. lawmakers and turned over to foreign lawbreakers. It’s outrageous. A recent NBC article covers this issue. “Trump’s call to end birthright citizenship would face a mountain of opposition,” the headline reads. In May of last year, Trump released a campaign video … saying he would sign an executive order on day one...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, is apparently fine with helping illegal aliens climb over the United States-Mexico border wall. During an interview on CNN, Walz appeared to refer to former President Donald Trump’s border wall. “He talks about this wall. I always say, ‘Let me know how high it is. If it’s 25 feet, then I’ll invest in a 30-foot ladder factory,'” Walz stated. The radical leftist governor continued: That’s not how you stop this. You stop this using electronics. You stop it using more border control agents. You stop it by...

CHESTER TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is on the lookout for an alligator after multiple people reported seeing one on Crockery Lake in northeastern Ottawa County over the weekend. “They do show up from time to time in Michigan waterways, so we’re not surprised,” DNR Lt. Gerald Thayer said. “Typically,when we see stuff like this, it’s somebody who maybe went down south and found a baby alligator and it was nice, cute and small. But as they got home and, in an aquarium, it kind of started to outgrow things. Maybe it became a little...

Severed human hands were found stuffed in a crockpot filled with bleach inside a Bronx apartment Monday — and the victim is likely the same person whose remains were torched in a shopping cart in Yonkers, sources said. Detectives were conducting a search warrant inside an apartment on Rogers Place near East 163rd Street in Longwood around 11:30 p.m. when they made the grisly discovery, police said. A black bag discovered inside the freezer likely holds more remains — including at least one leg — but investigators had not opened the bag yet, according to the sources. The investigators came...

Ron DeSantis takes down Tim Walz

It looks like the original explanation for where Homo floresiensis came from was right all along. The Hobbit humerus fragment (left) from Mata Menge next to one from Liang Bua to scale, and the full collection of bones from the most complete Liang Bua Hobbit. Image Credit: Yousuke Kaifu ================================================================================ Three new fossils, including part of a humerus, have been found at Mata Menge on the Indonesian island of Flores. They indicate that Homo floresiensis, popularly known as Hobbits, were descended from Homo erectus, and became small relatively soon after arriving on Flores. Indeed, it seems at least some Hobbits...

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg used a "White Dupes for Harris" fundraising event to tell 20,000 prospective donors that "Vice-President Harris has women's health freedom as Exhibit A in her case for voters to elect her president. But it's not only women who will benefit from a nationwide right to a free abortion at any time and for any reason. Men will be freed from the obligation to pay to support the children who are aborted." The Secretary used statistics to buttress his argument, pointing out that "87% of abortions are performed on unmarried women and 64% of them report...

Hundreds arrested as anti-immigrant protesters wreak havoc in across England

Business investor and television personality Mark Cuban has high praise for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), who was announced Monday as Vice President Harris’s running mate. The entrepreneur and reality TV panelist complimented Walz in a social media post Tuesday for his relatability as Silicon Valley bigwigs draw lines in the sand over the November election. Technology Mark Cuban on Tim Walz: He ‘can make you feel like you have [known] him forever’ by Tobias Burns - 08/06/24 1:51 PM ET Share Post Mark Cuban speaks in Washington, D.C. Mark Schiefelbein, Associated Press Businessman Mark Cuban speaks after attending meetings...

Rochester, N.Y. — A 3-month-old boy died from his injuries after he was apparently attacked by dogs on the city's northwest side over the weekend, according to police. .... Police said two pit bull-type dogs believed to have attacked the boy were seized from the home, as the circumstances leading up to his death remain under investigation.

i believe texas has explicitly reserved the right to secede when it joined the USA. also the constitution does not prohibit other states and while the war between the states was fought over this, there was never a court case to determine this. looking at a 2020 map of blue and red counties, it seems apparent that most counties favor trump. this can reasonably be expected to continue through 2024. if the election fraud continues in 2024 as is widely anticipated, what would prohibit 1. texas state from peacefully seceding and forming an independent republic of texas 2. individual counties...

Vladimir Putin has desperately sent troops to repel hundreds of soldiers, tanks and armoured vehicles that have stormed across Russia's border in what Moscow claimed was a Ukrainian attack. Moscow's defence ministry said it has rushed troops and aviation units to the southwestern region after Ukrainian units allegedly tried to attack Russian positions just inside the border, according to Russian officials. 'Border defence troops, together with military units of the FSB border force, are repelling attacks and inflicting fire damage on the enemy,' the defence ministry said in a statement Tuesday. Russia claims Ukraine launched the foray early this morning...

Russia has captured 162 square miles of the Ukrainian territory since June 14, the Interfax news agency said Tuesday, citing Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia's security council. Russian forces have captured the village of Tymofiivka in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, Interfax news agency quoted the defense ministry as saying Tuesday. Also, Russian forces have thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to penetrate the border in Russia's Kursk region, the interim governor of the region said Tuesday.

Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A giant vegetable enthusiast from Iowa broke a world record when he harvested an eggplant weighing in at a staggering 8.33 pounds. Dave Bennett from Davis County had his eggplant examined by Inspector Ivan Hankins of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship's Iowa Weights and Measures Bureau. Hankins confirmed the 8.33-pound eggplant is the largest in the world. "I've been growing eggplants for probably five years now," Bennett told Radio Iowa. "Two years ago I set the state record at 5.6 pounds." He said Guinness World Records has been in contact to tell him...