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If you report unfavorably about homelessness, open drug use, criminal illegal gangs terrorizing apartment complexes, etc., the Denver Post (a HORRIBLE newspaper that does no good reporting on these issues) will use your public records request to try to get you fired and shut up. ... Censorship, when you can't debate the facts. ... There’s more. Wait ... AG Weiser of CO put Tina Peters in jail, is going after deputies who work with ICE, but refuses to charge criminals until they steal their 3rd or 4th car in 3 months. ... The good news is that the Denver Post...

Jailed, in physical pain and feeling utterly defeated, Luis Diaz Inestroza — a Kansas City, Kansas, immigrant who illegally crossed over into the United States 13 years ago from Honduras — has chosen to self-deport. In 2019, during the first term of President Donald Trump, the life of Diaz Inestroza, his 3-year-old stepson, Noah, and his then-pregnant partner, Kenia Mayorga, was featured along with the stories of seven other families in the six-part Netlix docuseries “Living Undocumented,” produced by singer and actress Selena Gomez. Diaz Inestroza and his family would subsequently come to settle in Kansas City, Kansas, where he...

Economists across the political spectrum predicted that President Donald Trump’s trade negotiations would end in disaster. Now that his August 1 deadline has passed without the sky falling — and with multiple advantageous deals completed — it’s time to seriously reevaluate the flawed arguments the experts made against his strategy. Many, it turns out, made basic errors in economic reasoning. On the left, Nobel laureate and Columbia professor Joseph Stiglitz declared in January that Trump’s policy was “very bad for America and for the world,” while University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers called it “impressively destructive.” On the right, prominent...

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A team of investigators report that adults who later develop cardiovascular disease show declining physical activity levels beginning roughly 12 years before their event, with the gap versus their healthy peers persisting long afterward. Scientists analyzed data from 3,068 participants in CARDIA, a prospective study initiated in 1985–1986 with up to 10 physical activity assessments through 2020–2022. Participants were followed in four US cities with a median follow-up of 34.0 years. Physical activity decreased steadily from young adulthood into middle age, then stabilized in later years across the full cohort. Black men had a more sustained decline, while Black women...

Michelle Obama has been married to former President Barack Obama for more than 30 years, but she wasn’t so sure about him at first. On a recent episode of her IMO podcast, which she cohosts with her brother Craig Robinson, Michelle explained how she met her husband. She also revealed that she thought he was “kind of weird.” (snip) “I was on the Harvard recruiting team,” she said. “So I knew of him, this Barack Obama.” But while others around her seemed super impressed by Barack, Michelle remained skeptical. “Everybody was abuzz about him, right?” she continued. “All the partners...

“Shadows of the Night” endured a difficult route to becoming a global hit single in 1982 – and Pat Benatar, who made it happen, endured her own challenges along the way. The song was written by D.L. Byron specifically for the 1980 movie Times Square, but producers of the teenage runaway story felt it didn’t have hit potential, and rejected it. Subsequent versions were released in 1981 by German-based singer Helen Shneider and vocalist and actress Rachel Sweet, with modest results. As Benatar worked on her fourth album Get Nervous, she and drummer Myron Grombacher decided to reshape “Shadows of...

Key Takeaways Carnivores come in many shapes and sizes, from familiar pets like dogs to exotic creatures like fossas. Each carnivore family has unique traits, like the powerful limbs of eared seals and scent glands of skunks. Some 'carnivores' like raccoons and red pandas are actually omnivores, eating both plants and animals.

Chronic liver disease (CLD) is a major global health concern. This life-threatening disease often progresses silently, eventually leading to worsened conditions like liver cirrhosis or liver cancer. There is currently no treatment for CLD other than liver transplantation. Vitamin D is commonly consumed for enhanced bone health. A recent study opens exciting possibilities for repurposing an inexpensive supplement as a complementary therapy for liver diseases. Prof. Hyo-Jung Kwon and his colleagues have studied the underlying mechanisms and therapeutic implications of vitamin D in liver disease. "Here, we explored the effects of vitamin D on ductular reaction and CLDs, and investigated...

Project Veritas on Thursday released part two of its whistleblower investigation into former US Attorney General Bill Barr.On Tuesday, Project Veritas released a bombshell story from a whistleblower alleging former US Attorney General Bill Barr along with media figure Armstrong Williams is running an illegal immigration visa fraud scheme for elites and billionaires.Patrícia Lélis, whistleblower, former Brazilian journalist at Howard Stirk Holdings, who is in hiding abroad, told Project Veritas that she was prosecuted after reporting Bill Barr and Armstrong William to the FBI.On Thursday, Project Veritas released video of Lélis explaining how Bill Barr plotted prosecutions of Trump to...

Seattle police arrested three suspects Wednesday night after a man was brutally beaten and robbed in Pioneer Square, according to the Seattle Police Department. Around 11 p.m. on August 6, officers responded to a report of an assault near the 300 block of South Main Street. When they arrived, they found a 42-year-old man on the ground with a bleeding head wound. His wallet, phone, and shoes had been taken, police said.

Anti-Israel activist confronts former IDF soldier on New York beach, gets questioned in return Video shows activist shouting accusations while former IDF soldier and friends remain calm and composed A peaceful afternoon on a New York beach took a jarring turn when an anti-Israel activist launched a verbal tirade against a former Israeli soldier, simply for wearing a Star of David necklace. The incident, captured on video and posted by ILTV Israel News, shows the activist shouting accusations and interrogating the man and his friends in an increasingly heated exchange. "Yesterday, an unhinged pro-Hamas protester targeted a former IDF soldier...

A Southern California man was sentenced to prison for defrauding the government of over $6.9 million through a scheme that targeted small business loans during the COVID-19 pandemic. His scheme defrauded the Small Business Administration (SBA) out of millions of dollars in loans through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Program, officials said. According to court documents, the crimes occurred from March 2020 through October 2022. Park was the owner of a financial services company that helped clients repair credit scores and obtain financing, including loans. A Southern California man was sentenced to prison for defrauding the government of over...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday offered a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.“Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like [Tren de Aragua], Sinaloa and Cartel of the Suns to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a video posted on X.The Drug Enforcement Administration has thus far seized 30 tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and his associates, Bondi said, and “nearly seven tons linked to Maduro himself, which represents a primary source of income for the deadly cartels based in Venezuela and Mexico.”***The...

Cabinet approves Gaza Strip occupation after over 10-hour debate

Even with public trust at an all-time low, Wikipedia continues to maintain people's confidence. How do they do it? Former CEO of Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher delves into the transparent, adaptable and community-building ways the online encyclopedia brings free and reliable information to the public -- while also accounting for bias and difference of opinion. "The seeds of our disagreement can actually become the roots of our common purpose," she says.

"This thread is about how to nominate the purged 1946 film Walt Disney's Song of the South to the National Film Registry. The deadline is Aug 15. The form is in the next comment. You need reasons why it should be on the Registry & this thread will give you several." https://x.com/Real_Ed_McCray/status/1953469233179885602

A Trump-Putin meeting has been floated by both sides for some time. So why might either side want it to happen now? US President Donald Trump wants to bring the force of his personality to bear on forging a deal, believing that six months of intransigence from Moscow might be overcome by meeting the Kremlin head face to face. He seems still to cling to the idea the Kremlin can be cajoled into stopping the war, despite his Russian counterpart recently suggesting the maximalist position that the Russian and Ukrainian people are one, and wherever a Russian soldier steps is...

A woman was arrested for allegedly stealing over $1,000 worth of merchandise from an Orange County grocery store. On July 27, the woman was seen entering a Whole Foods market on Irvine Center Drive in Irvine and began clearing the shelves of supplements and probiotics and loading the items into her shopping cart. She is accused of heading to the self-checkout lane and scanning only several items. She then left the store with over $1,000 worth of unpaid merchandise, police said. On Aug. 7, she was located and arrested for grand theft.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Yvette M. Bryant gave zero prison time to a violent criminal named Patrick Brice, even though there is video proof that he brutally assaulted two people, ages 84 and 72. One of the victims has permanent damage to one of his eyes from the assault.