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Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein is considering three potential vice presidential picks, the campaign told Al Jazeera over the weekend. She is expected to announce her choice during a livestream this upcoming Thursday. The Stein campaign confirmed to Al Jazeera that its vice presidential shortlist includes Abed Ayoub, Amer Zahr, and Jacqueline Luqman. Ayoub is the Executive Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Zahr is a Palestinian American activist and adjunct professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, and Luqman is a D.C.-based activist and host of the Real News Network. All three are described...

Harris campaign releases video showing Kamala call Tim Walz to ask him to be her running mate

Search Type to Search Search Politics Tim Walz left National Guard battalion ‘hanging,’ ‘slithered out the door’ before Iraq deployment: vets By Caitlin Doornbos and Josh Christenson Published Aug. 6, 2024 Updated Aug. 6, 2024, 2:00 p.m. ET Veterans have accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of “embellishing” his military career and abandoning his National Guard battalion, highlighting that the now-vice presidential pick for the Democrats never served in combat and retired from service ahead of his unit’s 2005 deployment to Iraq. In a letter posted to Facebook in 2018 as he first ran for governor, retired Command Sergeants Major Thomas...

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A Pakistani national with purported ties to Iran was arrested last month on charges he plotted to assassinate former President Donald Trump and multiple other public officials, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court. While the criminal complaint does not mention Trump by name, multiple sources familiar with the case told ABC News one of the intended targets of the alleged plot was Trump. After spending time in Iran, Asif Merchant flew from Pakistan to the U.S. to recruit hitmen to carry out the alleged plot, according to a detention memo. The person he contacted was...

The Democrat Party was excited about Vice President Kamala Harris choosing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate on Tuesday, but social media users were disgusted. In a social media post on its Facebook page, the Democrat Party shared photos of the two leftists, Harris and Walz, calling them the “Dream team”: Dream team 💙 Posted by Democratic Party on Tuesday, August 6, 2024 Social media users were quick to voice their thoughts about that label. “Nightmares are dreams too I guess,” one individual commented. Another user seemed to think the pairing of Harris and Walz was ridiculous...

The 18650-format potassium-ion battery was launched at the 14th annual Beyond Lithium Conference at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. - Group1 ============================================================================================ The vast majority of our portable electronic gadgets, and the new wave of electric transportation, are powered by lithium batteries. Texas-based startup Group1 has developed a more sustainable alternative, and has now launched the world's first 18650 potassium-ion battery. Group1 was co-founded in 2021 by battery tech veterans, including Leigang Xue who currently serves as Chief Product Officer but previously worked in the lab of 2019 Nobel Laureate and battery pioneer Dr. John Goodenough at University...

Large Fires Burning in Atlanta-Gen. Hood's Purposes Unknown. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Saturday, Aug. 6. A letter dated one mile from Atlanta, on July 31, from a prominent officer there to another here, says: "Fires are now burning in Atlanta. They indicate that Gen. HOOD is destroying a large amount of property; but whether with a view to the evacuation of the place or not is unknown." Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette. NEAR ATLANTA, Ga., Friday, July 29. CHASSEZ. A week ago to-day the Army of the Tennessee lost its beloved Commander in the great battle southeast of the walls of the...

Call it preemptive Election Denial. Rep. Nancy Pelosi picked Rep. Jamie Raskin, a supposed “constitutional law” expert in the same way that an arsonist is an expert on house fires, as a ‘manager’ for impeaching President Trump over J6. Since then, Rep. Raskin has been prepping a bill that would abuse the 14th Amendment to block Trump. Raskin, a former member of the Jan. 6 select committee, said he is already crafting the bill, telling Axios, “I’m working on it — today.” Raskin pointed to legislation he introduced with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) in 2022 creating a pathway for...

Well, it’s finally a race. On Tuesday, Kamala Harris selected progressive Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate in what has become one of the most exciting presidential campaign sprints in modern history. The Harris-Walz campaign now has just 89 days to take its show on the road before voters head to the ballot box on Nov. 5. Harris’ choice also did the impossible, uniting progressive and conservative lawmakers in Washington. Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hailed Walz as an “excellent decision” and a leader who “won’t back down under tight odds.” Meanwhile, Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) —...

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...