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  • Days before fatal Mag Mile crash-and-grab, accused man posed with governor at ‘peacekeeper’ event — while wanted in 4 states

    09/18/2025 6:08:03 AM PDT · by PBRCat · 34 replies
    CWB Chicago ^ | September 18, 2025 | Time Hecke
    Less than a week before a crash-and-grab burglary crew killed an innocent man on the Magnificent Mile last Thursday, one of the men now charged with that murder donned a “peacekeeper” uniform and posed for a one-on-one picture with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. While that’s troubling, some law enforcement experts are more concerned that the accused man was able to stand directly next to the state’s most powerful executive despite having outstanding warrants in four states. Just before 5 a.m. on September 11, a group of burglars backed a pickup truck into a display window at the Louis Vuitton store...
  • I have no relationship with Trump, Brazil's President Lula tells BBC

    09/17/2025 4:23:47 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 11 replies
    BBC News ^ | September 17, 2025 | Ione Wells and Leandro Prazeres
    Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has told the BBC in an exclusive interview that he has "no relationship" with US President Donald Trump. Lula has frequently criticised Trump, but this is the clearest signal yet that he thinks communication between him and his US counterpart is now broken. Even though the US has a trade surplus with Brazil, Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on Brazilian goods in July, citing the trial on coup charges of Brazil's right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro as a trigger. Lula described the tariffs as "eminently political" and said US consumers would be facing...
  • Vaccine-Autism Researcher Arrested After Decade on the Run for Stealing $1 Million From CDC

    09/17/2025 3:37:27 PM PDT · by CFW · 33 replies
    The Liberty Daily ^ | 9/17/25 | Cassie B
    Disgraced CDC vaccine researcher Poul Thorsen was arrested in Germany after a decade on the run for fraud and money laundering. His fraudulent studies, used to dismiss vaccine-autism links, helped deny more than 5,000 injury claims while he stole nearly $1 million in CDC funds. Thorsen’s research was riddled with flaws, ethical violations, and conflicts of interest, yet the CDC continued defending it even after his crimes were exposed. Critics say his arrest reveals systemic corruption in vaccine research, where pharmaceutical influence and fraudulent science silence families of injured children. If extradited and compelled to testify, Thorsen could expose deeper...
  • U.S. House begins work on plan designating Antifa as domestic terrorists

    09/17/2025 1:41:22 PM PDT · by fwdude · 13 replies
    World Net Daily ^ | Sept 17, 2025 | Bob Unruh
    President Donald Trump already has confirmed he would be on board with designating Antifa, and other far-left radicals across America, as domestic terrorists. His confirmation came in a response to a question from The Center Square. Now the House of Representatives is working on that very project. That same publication now is confirming that the House is expediting legislation brought by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., to do that.
  • Not a Bad Thing: Remember All Those Electric Buses Kamala Paid For and We Didn't Get?

    09/16/2025 9:55:04 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    Hotair ^ | 09/16/2025 | Beege Welborn
    Turns out, as much money as those Biden bozos blew through, prepaying for electric buses up front that were never and will never now be delivered?EPA head Lee Zeldin says the Biden administraiton sent $160 million dollars to a Canadian electric vehicles company.... which then pocketed the money, didn’t send the school buses promised and then declared bankruptcy!“There was $160 million that went to a Canadian electric… pic.twitter.com/hANBqhFPfm— Mike Netter (@nettermike) August 16, 2025...“There was $160 million that went to a Canadian electric vehicle bus manufacturer. The Biden administration sent all of the money — They gave all the money...
  • Monica Cannon-Grant, founder of Boston nonprofit, to plead guilty in federal fraud case

    09/14/2025 11:03:48 AM PDT · by CFW · 31 replies
    Boston25news ^ | 9/14/25 | staff
    BOSTON — Monica Cannon-Grant, the founder of the nonprofit Violence in Boston, plans to plead guilty to federal charges of defrauding people who donated to her organization. In a one-page document filed in federal court in Boston on Friday, Canon-Grant requested a change of plea hearing. Cannon-Grant faces a 27-count indictment on charges including wire fraud, mail fraud, making false statements, and filing false tax returns, among other offenses. Federal investigators have alleged that Cannon-Grant, and her husband, Clark Grant, “solicited and received over $1 million in donations and grants from individuals, charitable institutions and other entities.” The indictment alleged...
  • Woke Cash, Empty Jails: The NGO Machine Behind Charlotte’s Crime Sanctuary

    09/13/2025 4:33:45 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 27 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 13 Sep, 2025 | Charlton Allen
    The murder of Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s light rail was not only a savage crime—it was the inevitable result of a national agenda of progressive “justice reform,” funded by outside NGOs and executed by local officials who put “equity” ahead of public safety. Charlotte is just the latest example of how this machine works: money flows in, jails are emptied, and the public is left to pay the price. As ZeroHedge aptly summarized, It seems as if the very pillars the Democratic Party has built itself on, whether social and criminal justice reform, progressive judges, or its dark-money-funded NGO complex,...
  • Lisa Cook should be kicked out of Fed’s September meeting, Larry Kudlow tells ‘Pod Force One’

    09/13/2025 2:41:18 AM PDT · by Libloather · 26 replies
    NY Post ^ | 9/10/25 | Josh Christenson
    WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook should be banned from the central bank’s upcoming meeting later this month after a Trump official got her “dead to rights” on allegations of mortgage fraud, former Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow told “Pod Force One.” “I mean, she doesn’t understand it, but she’s been fired,” Kudlow claimed to The Post’s Miranda Devine on the latest episode, out now. “…. She’s been fired for these allegations. The court doesn’t have to prove her guilty or not, by the way. If the president fires you, you’re fired. “The President appoints Federal Reserve governors,”...
  • Judge rules Virginia school board violated First Amendment by restoring Confederate school name

    09/11/2025 10:51:50 AM PDT · by fwdude · 104 replies
    Washington Examiner via MSN ^ | Sept 10, 2025 | Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examine
    A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against a school district in Virginia for reinstating a Confederate school name, saying the move violated the constitutional rights of black students. U.S. District Judge Michael F. Urbanski ruled that Stonewall Jackson High School students in Shenandoah County, Virginia, cannot be forced to bear Jackson's name and its pro-slavery associations.
  • Days of Thunder

    09/09/2025 5:25:00 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 35 replies
    Kunstler.com ^ | 8 Sep, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler
    "If we hadn’t won this election we would have all been vaxxed to death and censored so no one could hear our dying screams" — Mike Benz on "X". That reckoning you’ve heard about lo these many years? It’s here now. We’re in it. You just can’t see all the moving parts, and if you did, you might not understand how or where they are moving, and what they are fixing to do next. Aside from certain US senators playing their pre-scripted mad scenes for the cameras, a disquieting quiet blankets the swamp like a miasma. It feels like a...
  • ESCAPE FROM JUDGE FRIMPONG

    09/09/2025 6:26:43 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 14 replies
    Powerline ^ | 9 Sep 2025 | Scott Johnson
    I have written several posts on California Federal District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong’s temporary restraining order more or less preventing ICE from operating in California’s Central District — the district covering the seven counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. The counties’ population of nearly 20 million people is the largest of any federal judicial district in the country. I wrote about Judge Frimpong’s crimping of ICE in posts that are accessible here. It’s crazy, baby. That’s my view. ... By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court order has stayed Judge...
  • Kash Patel Reveals FBI Investigating North Carolina Train Stabbing

    09/08/2025 8:26:08 PM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 66 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/08/2025 | ELIZABETH WEIBEL
    Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel revealed that the agency has been investigating a stabbing that took place on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, resulting in the death of a Ukrainian refugee. “The FBI has been investigating the Charlotte train murder from day one,” Patel wrote in a post on X. “Stay tuned.” Patel’s post comes after Iryna Zarutska, 23, was allegedly stabbed in the throat several times on August 22, 2025, by suspect Decarlos Brown Jr. while riding the Charlotte light rail. Breitbart News reported that Brown was arrested and charged with first-degree murder regarding the...
  • Judge who (last) released Iryna Zarutska’s alleged killer reportedly profits from a mental health and addiction clinic—is she lining her own pockets?

    09/08/2025 9:45:02 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 23 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 09/08/2025 | Olivia Murray
    Teresa Stokes, the last judge to release Decarlos Brown Jr. (a homeless, violent schizophrenic with a lengthy criminal rap sheet) earlier this year, is a woman of many hats. Not only is she an activist judge who makes decisions based on a progressive perspective of criminality, uses her gavel to mete out “reparative” and “equitable” justice—as evidenced by the no-cash bail release for a perp like Decarlos in January—but she’s also apparently the Director of Operations for a mental health and addiction clinic in her very own community. 🚨 NEW: Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, who RELEASED 14-time criminal DeCarlos Brown...
  • Madman Charged With Killing Ukrainian Refugee Iryna Zarutska Was Free on Cashless Bail — Despite Years of Violence, Mental Illness

    09/08/2025 7:33:32 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 56 replies
    Greek Reporter ^ | Sep. 8, 2025 | Steven Vago, Anthony Blair and Chris Nesi
    The deranged homeless man charged with butchering a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte train was free on cashless bail after a magistrate released him with just a “written promise” to show up for court — despite a nearly two-decade history of violence and mental illness. Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, was arrested at least 14 times in North Carolina for crimes ranging from assault and firearms possession to felony robbery and larceny dating back to 2007. His own mother told local TV station WSOC that her son was schizophrenic and should never have been allowed to roam the streets. Horrifying...
  • Reel Inn restaurant among businesses that were told they can't rebuild after Palisades Fire

    09/08/2025 7:46:34 PM PDT · by know.your.why · 19 replies
    https://abc7.com/ ^ | 09/05/2025 | Josh Haskell
    MALIBU, Calif. (KABC) -- The road to recovery after the Palisades Fire has been anything but smooth for a group of historical business owners on the eastern edge of Malibu. For years, the Reel Inn was a staple along Pacific Coast Highway at Topanga Canyon Boulevard. The famous seafood shack fed surfers and tourists for nearly 40 years. Its sign is now in a pile of rubble, and because of a yearslong dispute over land use, the Reel Inn may never reopen. Other businesses are facing the same roadblocks when it comes to rebuilding -- The Topanga Ranch Motel, Wiley's...
  • EXC: Taxpayer Funds Used To Test Persuasion Tactics To Sell More COVID Vaccines

    09/08/2025 5:35:20 PM PDT · by logi_cal869 · 23 replies
    NatalieGWinters.substack ^ | 9/8/2025 | Natalie Winters
    A new taxpayer-funded study shows just how far the medical establishment will go to make sure Americans fall in line with the COVID vaccine agenda. Titled “Different Vaccination Debunking Interventions,” the newly published paper isn’t about developing safer vaccines, studying side effects, or investigating long-term risks. Instead, researchers (with significant conflicts of interest with big pharma) wanted to learn how to convince skeptical Americans to get several COVID-19 shots. The University of Pennsylvania researchers earned praise from the media for uncovering the “best ways to debunk COVID vaccine misinformation,” particularly among the vaccine hesitant. There’s a clear conflict of interest...
  • The Morning Briefing: Media Blackout Regarding Charlotte Murder Is Pure Evil

    09/08/2025 10:31:45 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 29 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 8 Sep 2025 | Stephen Kruiser
    There is a lot of darkness out there. I've been wrestling with what to say to kick this off; something deep and insightful. Really, all I want to do is punch something. The nightmarish video from Charlotte, N.C., of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska being murdered by a psychopath who was roaming freely thanks to the Democrats' violent felon fetish is sickening and infuriating. Hence the desire to punch something. This is a story that is difficult to tell, but needs to be told. Guess who isn't telling it, though? Our enemy of the people, "journalists" in the mainstream media. It...
  • Magistrate Judge who RELEASED 14-time criminal DeCarlos Brown Jr., is the "Director of Operations" at Second Chance Services, a mental health and addiction clinic

    09/08/2025 9:20:09 AM PDT · by Racketeer · 27 replies
    X ^ | September 7, 2025 | Publius
    🚨 NEW: Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes, who RELEASED 14-time criminal DeCarlos Brown Jr., is also the "Director of Operations" at Second Chance Services, a mental health and addiction clinic in Charlotte, NC. DOES THIS JUDGE RELEASE VIOLENT CRIMINALS INTO HER TREATMENT CENTER TO GET PAID BY A GOVT CONTRACT? INVESTIGATE THIS RACKET!
  • Why the world is watching RFK's fight with US health agency

    09/06/2025 4:16:05 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    BBC ^ | September 5, 2025 | Jim Reed
    In fiery Senate testimony this week, US Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr once again set his sights on the nation's top public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His appearance came days after he suddenly fired the new CDC director, Susan Monarez, provoking a group of senior staff to resign in protest. At the hearing, when asked for an explanation, Kennedy claimed he had asked Ms Monarez if she was a "trustworthy person" and she had replied "no", to some disbelief from his opponents in the room. He then admitted he had once described the CDC...
  • Susan Monarez Tries To Justify The CDC And Herself

    09/06/2025 6:31:32 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 47 replies
    Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 5 Sep, 2025 | Francis Menton
    By some strange coincidence, no sooner did I write yesterday’s post about the thoroughly corrupt CDC and its recently-fired Director, Susan Monarez, than there turns up in today’s Wall Street Journal an op-ed by the same Ms. Monarez trying to justify herself and the agency with regard to HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. The headline is “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC and Me.” The sub-headline (online edition only) is “I was fired after 29 days because I held the line and insisted on rigorous scientific review.” The article is behind the Journal’s paywall, so I will provide some substantial quotes....